Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.Read More »
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Robert D. Webb – Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
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Preston Sturges – Les carnets du Major Thompson AKA The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955)
1951-1960ComedyCultFrancePreston Sturges

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Major Thompson, an Englishman living in France, comments in his memoirs on the peculiarities of his French wife and friends.Read More » -
Morris Engel – Weddings and Babies (1958)
1951-1960ArthouseDramaMorris EngelUSAQuote:
In New York City, wedding photographer Al Capetti is being pressured by his girlfriend and assistant, Bea, to get married. Al thinks he doesn’t make enough money to support a family; his answer is embarking on a career as a filmmaker. Meanwhile, Al’s senile mother starts a fire in a boarding house, and he has to decide about putting her in a nursing home. As Bea tires of Al’s lack of commitment, their relationship threatens to go up in flames.Read More » -
Takumi Furukawa – Taiyo no kisetsu AKA Season of the Sun (1956)
1951-1960DramaJapanTakumi Furukawa

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The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.Read More » -
Daniel Mann – I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
1951-1960Daniel MannDramaUSAFilmed on location; inside a woman’s soul.
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman (Ray Danton), he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie (Don Taylor), followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman (Richard Conte). After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert)comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her motherRead More » -
William Martin – The Naked Road (1959)
1951-1960CrimeUSAWilliam MartinSynopsis:
After giving up his girlfriend to a rural sheriff as collateral for a speeding ticket, a sleazy modeling agent drives to the big city to get the cash. Unfortunately, the sheriff had other plans, and sold her off to an even sleazier guy who will turn her into a sex slave.Read More » -
Bethel Buckalew – Revenge of the Virgins (1959)
1951-1960Bethel BuckalewEroticaUSAWesternPlot Synopsis from AMG
This is an entry in the short-lived genre of “nudie” westerns. In this one, a tribe of Indian women (topless, of course) vow to protect their land from a group of white men who want to take it. They decide to use any means necessary to do it.
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Seijun Suzuki – Ankoku no Ryoken AKA Passport To Darkness (1959)
1951-1960AsianJapanMysterySeijun Suzuki

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The story deals with a trombone player, Ibuki, who’s taking a “working” honeymoon with his wife. While they travel via train to the next gig, his wife disappears. Thinking she left him, Ibuki drowns his sorrow in beer. Depressed, he returns home to find her dead body. The police immediately suspect him, but he escapes and goes into the underground to find the real killer.Read More » -
Luigi Zampa – Processo alla città aka The City Stands Trial (1952)
1951-1960CrimeDramaItalyLuigi Zampa

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Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated. Many people are questioned, even those apparently above suspicion. Deciding to get to the bottom of the matter, the judge keeps all the suspects under arrest, causing a backlash of public opinion.Read More »




