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1950s Movies

Peyton Place (1957)

October 13, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

Peyton Place movie storyline. It’s the pre-WWII era. Peyton Place is a small town in New England, whose leading adult citizens rule the town with their high moral standards, which they try to pass on to their offspring. The adults, especially those that wield power largely through their positions and/or through their wealth, will not tolerate anything they believe morally improper.

1960s Movies

7 Women (1966)

July 20, 2020January 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

7 Women movie storyline. It’s 1935 on the Chinese side of the China-Mongolia border, a region of lawlessness due to the fighting between and amongst the feuding war lords and marauding bandits. American Christian missionaries, led by unbending and strict Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton), have set up a mission in the area.

1960s Movies

BUtterfield 8 (1960)

June 21, 2020February 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

BUtterfield 8 movie storyline. The movie opening credits play, while we watch a sleeping Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor) snoozing in the morning. She wakes up, and surveys her surroundings purposefully – in search of a morning cigarette.

1950s Movies

Picnic (1956)

June 20, 2020February 16, 2023 - by greatmovies

Picnic movie synopsis. The drifter Hal Carter hitchhikes by train to a small town to visit the college friend Alan Benson, who is the son of the industrialist Mr. Benson that is the wealthiest person in town. Hal asks for a small job to Ms. Helen Potts and the old lady feels affection for him and tells that nobody works in the Labor Day. She gives a breakfast to Hal and he meets her next door neighbor, the gorgeous Marjorie “Madge” Owens that is Alan’s girlfriend.

1950s Movies

Bus Stop (1956)

July 28, 2019July 21, 2023 - by greatmovies

Bus Stop is adapted by George Axelrod (who also co-wrote The Seven Year Itch (1955) also starring Monroe) and based on the hit Broadway play by William Inge.

1940s Movies

Kings Row (1942)

July 28, 2019July 22, 2023 - by greatmovies

A thought-provoking, emotional, melodramatic, ‘Peyton Place’-like film with a turn-of-the-century, small-town setting that reveals evil, sadism, cruelty, and depravity. Directed by Sam Wood and with James Wong Howe’s cinematography and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s magnificently rich score, the tragic Warner Bros. film presents a compelling, penetrating and difficult story with eloquence and power.