Forbidden Planet (1956), Madhumati (1958), Forbidden Planet (1956), Panic in the Streets (1950), The Red and the Black (1954), Ride Lonesome (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Broken Lance (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1950s Cinema movies.
Storyline: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, fugitive, revenge, 19th century, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally asks him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to the decisive victory over Santa Anna and the Mexican army to gains Texas' independence.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: western, historical drama, american history, 19th century, heroism, war film, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The midnight murder of a rancher and his wife leaves circumstantial evidence pointing the finger of guilt toward a married couple, George Braden and his wife Ellen, who live and work on the ranch. George confesses to the killings in order to free his wife from hours of grilling by the police. Despite the best efforts of his defense attorney Doug Madison, George gets the death penalty. Subsequent events, and his sympathy for Ellen convince Doug that George is innocent, but he must find the real murderer to prove it. His manhunt leads to a former hired hand, Max Verne. With the help of the latter's greedy girlfriend, Gracie Sanger, Max is found and admits to the killings. But when a hearing is held, a psychiatrist pronounces him unsound of mind but harmless, and the judge sets him free. After the Governor rejects Doug's pleas for an appeal for George, the townspeople turn against him, and his fiancée Paula Mitchener misconstrues his association with Ellen and breaks their engagement, and, having spent all his own money in an effort to achieve justice for George, and with his practice gone, Doug prepares to leave town.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, courtroom drama, murder mystery, legal thriller, wrongful conviction, b movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from Camp Benton, a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to to go to Santa Fe to join a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting $1miilion in Union gold to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap at Cow Creek in Missouri, but one of them builds friendships with the wagon train travelers and a widow and he continues to have doubts and misgivings..—Mister-UHF
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, action, gunfight, revenge, bounty hunter, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A writer (Alex Nicol) meets a lakeside temptress (Hillary Brooke) who wants her rich husband (Sidney James) dead.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, detective story, murder mystery, hardboiled, femme fatale, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Denver before the outbreak of the Civil War, North Carolina native Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) tricks saloon owner Jumbo Means (Raymond Burr) into losing everything he owns -- including some valuable mining claims -- in a card game. As headstrong dressmaker Ann (Virginia Mayo) and bartender Boston (Ruth Roman) spar over Owen's affections, his fellow Southerners begin assembling their gold to fund the Confederate Army, as the town's Northerners form their own militia and prepare for war.
Plot Keywords: western, historical drama, american civil war, gold rush, adventure, romance, gunfight ...
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