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1950s Movies

Salome (1953)

August 28, 2020January 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

Salome movie storyline. In the reign of Tiberius Caesar (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Gallilean prophet John the Baptist (Alan Badel) preaches against King Herod (Charles Laughton) and Queen Herodias (Dame Judith Anderson).

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.

1950s Movies

The Ten Commandments (1956)

July 3, 2020February 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Ten Commandments movie storyline. To escape the edict of Egypt’s Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith), condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston) is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Sethi (Sir Cedric Hardwicke).

1970s Movies

A Man Called Horse (1970)

June 25, 2020February 13, 2023 - by greatmovies

During the early 1800s, English Lord John Morgan (Richard Harris) is hunting in the Dakotas, but he is captured by a group of Sioux warriors. Morgan’s guides are killed, but he is spared by Sioux Chief Yellow Hand (Manu Tupou), who marvels at Morgan’s blond hair. Brought to Yellow Hand’s tribal village, Morgan has to endure physical abuse and mockery at the hands of women and children who consider him to be a wild horse.

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.

1940s Movies

Laura (1944)

July 27, 2019July 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

Laura movie storyline. NYPD detective Mark McPherson is investigating the murder of a beautiful and highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt.

1940s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Rebecca (1940)

July 27, 2019July 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

Rebecca storyline. On holiday in Monte Carlo, the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter meets a young woman who is working as a lady’s companion to Mrs. Van Hopper.