Throne of Blood
The Scottish Play goes to Japan in this reimagining of Macbeth from Akira Kurosawa. Is that a samurai sword I see before me? Toshiro Mifune gives an intense lead performance […]
Tag Archives: 1950s
Tokyo Story
An elderly couple (Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama) make their first trip to Tokyo to visit their children. First the children’s lives are shown from the perspective of the parents, […]
Love Nest
Jim Scott (William Lundigan) returns from World War Two to discover his wife Connie (June Haver) has invested in a large house and set about letting out the rooms. But […]
The River of No Return
In covered wagon days, a newly reunited father and son (Cape Fear‘s Robert Mitchum, Tommy Retig) head to the hills for a simple life of farming. But when a gambler […]
Bus Stop
Beauregard (Don Murray) is a naive rancher who’s 21-going-on-35 and has apparently never met a woman before. To remedy this, he and pal Virgil (Arthur O’Connell) travel to the city […]
To Catch A Thief
The film opens with a woman screaming after someone pinched her family jewels. A cat burglar is on the loose in France, with the claw of blame pointed squarely at […]
Fear and Desire
Deep behind enemy lines, four soldiers who are cut off from their army (Paul Mazursky, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Steve Coit) ponder their fate and their prospects of finding a […]
Operation Petticoat
Navy Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits his old submarine, the USS Sea Tiger, as it’s about to be decommissioned. He reminisces about its glory days from his crew’s restoration […]
Let’s Make it Legal
Apparently the title of this film is something to do with marriage, but all I could think of was Palpatine talking to those racist aliens in The Phantom Menace… The […]
Jazz Odyssey: Jazz on a Summer’s Day
One of the earliest concert movies, Jazz on a Summer’s Day captures the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and proves that audience members obnoxiously photographing concerts that are being filmed is not a […]
