31 Days of the 50's - 01/13

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

Una strega dei giorni nostri è contenta del suo vicino ma detesta la sua fidanzata, così fa un incantesimo per attrarre su di sé l'amore di lui e, alla fine, si innamora di lui veramente.

The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

Esplora le amicizie e le relazioni interrazziali nella New York City della era Beat degli anni 50' con musiche jazz in sottofondo.

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats-all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.

Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life as a magician's assistant.

The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.

Songwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.

La storia della vita del famoso pianista e band leader degli anni '30 e '40, Eddy Duchin.

When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.

A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.

Un feroce dinosauro risvegliato da un test atomico nell'Artico terrorizza il Nord Atlantico e New York City.

A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast.

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.

Dopo aver visto la bellissima Betsabea fare il bagno dal tetto del suo palazzo, il re Davide inizia una relazione adulterina che ha conseguenze tragiche per la sua famiglia e per Israele.

A man arrives home one night to find that a look- alike has taken over his life completely.

Come misura disciplinare, l'esercito trasferisce un maggiore dalla mano pesante a un'accademia ROTC dove deve formare i cadetti e migliorare le valutazioni complessive della scuola.

Discovering that a ventriloquist is travelling to Zurich, a spy ring hides secret plans in his dummies' heads. When a second spy ring learns of the plans, they descend upon the ventriloquist, causing city-wide pandemonium.

Uno sconosciuto sfacciato e le sue pecore arrivano in una piccola città, ma non subito dopo, i cittadini decidono di avere visto abbastanza di lui.

A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.

A Russian government official is sent to Paris to bring back her comrades; she soon gets a taste of Paris life and falls in love with an American movie producer.

Hoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself.

Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.