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1950s Movies

The Country Girl (1954)

November 21, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Country Girl movie storyline. Broadway director Bernie Dodd (William Holden) is in desperate need of a male lead for his new play and pushes to hire Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby), an aging one time star with just the experience and skills required. The downside is that he has a reputation for being an unreliable drunk. Elgin has the talent for the job, but seems to be entirely dependent on his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly) to make all of his decisions for him.

1970s Movies

Ashanti (1979)

August 25, 2020January 12, 2023 - by greatmovies

Ashanti movie storyline. David and Anansa Linderby are doctors with the World Health Organization. On a medical mission carrying out an inoculation programme, they visit a West African village. While David takes photographs of tribal dancers, Anansa goes swimming alone.

1950s Movies

The Key (1958)

August 2, 2020January 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Key movie storyline. During World War II, tugboats conduct salvage missions. Not well equipped with weaponry, the tugs are sitting ducks for enemy fire.

1960s Movies

Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

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Paris When It Sizzles movie storyline. Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up.

1970s Movies

Fedora (1978)

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Fedora movie storyline. One of the great movie stars of the century, the reclusive foreign-born Fedora, is known in Hollywood for inexplicably retaining her youthful beauty over the course of a career spanning decades: she looked no older in her first film than she did in her final one.

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.

1970s Movies

Breezy (1973)

June 17, 2020February 21, 2023 - by greatmovies

Breezy movie synopsis. In this Counterculture vs. Establishment romance, Frank Harmon (William Holden) is a middle-aged businessman, recently divorced and a bit bitter about the state of his life and the world in general.

1950s Movies

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

June 4, 2020July 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

Sunset Boulevard storyline. The obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office.

1970s Movies

The Towering Inferno (1974)

May 25, 2020July 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Towering Inferno, one in a string of disaster movies of the 1970s, was promoted as a tribute to firefighters and their heroic work.

1970s Movies

Network (1976)

May 23, 2020July 9, 2023 - by greatmovies

Network movie storyline. Howard Beale is an aging TV anchorman for UBS who is fired, effective in two weeks, after his ratings have been steadily deteriorating.