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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.

1960s Movies

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

August 4, 2020January 19, 2023 - by greatmovies

Judgment at Nuremberg movie storyline. It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American judge, Dan Haywood has a daunting task ahead of him.

1960s Movies

Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)

July 4, 2020February 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

Freud: The Secret Passion movie storyline. This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they’re just simulating to gain attention.

1950s Movies

From Here to Eternity (1953)

July 28, 2019July 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

James Jones’ best-selling, hard-hitting novel of on-duty/off-duty military life among recruits in the pre-Pearl Harbor era of 1941 – on the eve of WWII. A combination romance, combat and melodramatic film set at the Schofield Barracks Army base on Oahu. Sensitive bugler Pvt. Robert E. Lee “Prew” Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is dealt harsh treatment when he stubbornly refuses to fight for the company’s boxing team.

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.

1940s Movies

Red River (1948)

July 27, 2019July 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

Red River is a Western film directed by Howard Hawks, giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail.