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1950s Movies

Raintree County (1957)

October 2, 2020January 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

It’s the mid nineteenth century in Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana. John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer. He is a romantic, principled, and an idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree – after which the county is named – growing somewhere, most likely in the county’s swamp area, searching for and locating it which would provide all the answers to one’s life questions.

1950s Movies

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

September 25, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

Suddenly, Last Summer storyline. Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion’s View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy.

1950s Movies

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

August 19, 2020January 15, 2023 - by greatmovies

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof movie storyline. The family of “Big Daddy” Pollitt (Burl Ives) convenes at his and Big Momma’s (Dame Judith Anderson’s). Among the attendees is alcoholic son, Brick (Paul Newman); an ex-football player, who spends his time drinking and avoiding the ministries of his libidinous wife.

1960s Movies

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

August 2, 2020January 19, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Taming of the Shrew movie storyline. Baptista (Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish shrew, has wed.

1960s Movies

Boom! (1968)

July 20, 2020January 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

Boom! movie storyline. Flora ‘Sissy’ Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders (Richard Burton), nicknamed “Angelo Del Morte” (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be “The Angel of Death”.

1960s Movies

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

July 14, 2020September 28, 2023 - by greatmovies

Reflections in a Golden Eye movie storyline. U.S. Army Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando) is stationed on a base in the American south. He and his wife Leonora Penderton (Elizabeth Taylor) are in an unsatisfying marriage.

1970s Movies

A Little Night Music (1977)

July 10, 2020February 1, 2023 - by greatmovies

A Little Night Music movie storyline. Frederick Egerman (Len Cariou) is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne (Lesley-Anne Down). Only she’s been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrick goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt (Elizabeth Taylor).

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.

1960s Movies

Cleopatra (1963)

May 15, 2020July 12, 2023 - by greatmovies

Cleopatra movie storyline. In 48 B.C., Julius Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra VII.

1950s Movies

A Place in the Sun (1951)

July 27, 2019July 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

A Place in the Sun storyline. The young and poor George Eastman leaves his religious mother and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman.