Films of the Fifties

After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.

A fading matinee idol helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack.

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain the favor of their affectionate but strict, Bible-toting father as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

In 1944, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.

A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth and will he win his case?

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's sister.

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.