Quiz Call: Carmen Jones
You’ll kick yourself for not guessing Carmen Jones in Quiz Call‘s musicals category, alongside classics like Boney M musical Daddy Cool and not really a musical Animal Crackers. This 1954 […]
Tag Archives: 1950s
Madeleine
The titular Madeleine (Ann Todd) is torn between her father’s (Leslie Banks) wish for her to find an eligible suitor, and secret love Emile (Ivan Desny), the economically inferior and […]
The Sound Barrier
David Lean directs this fictionalised tale of the early attempts to break the sound barrier. It follows the head of an aviation company, John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson) and his daughter […]
Hobson’s Choice
Shoe shop owner Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is intent on marrying off his two younger daughters (Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales) while keeping his eldest, Maggie (Brenda de Banzie), to […]
No Man of Her Own
In one of four films Barbara Stanwyck made in 1950, she plays a pregnant woman mistaken for the person whose wedding ring she happens to be wearing during a train […]
Godzilla (1954)
With Godzilla: King of the Monsters out next month, we look at when the radioactive reptile first emerged from the ocean depths. From the ripped-from-the-headlines opening scene, the original Godzilla establishes […]
Houdini
Tony Curtis stars as the legendary magician and escapologist whose most remarkable feat is being the only Victorian-era entertainer to remain a household name into the 21st century. This biopic […]
