Classic 1950s movie reviews, movie articles and information. Movie reviews from classic movies from 1950 to 1959, the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Accused or robbery, a New York City jazz musician (Henry Fonda) is unable to prove police have arrested The Wrong Man. Guest writer KIm Wilson reviews Alfred Hitchock’s harrowing 1956 thriller, which was based on a true story.
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Lots of laughs develop when klutzy cameraman Red Skelton comes to the aid of heiress Arlene Dahl in Watch the Birdie. Guest writer Angela Petteys reviews the 1950 MGM comedy, which also stars Ann Miller.
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TV cop Jack Webb traded in his police badge for a press pass, playing the hard-edged managing editor of a Los Angeles newspaper, in -30-. Guest writer Raquel Stecher reports on the taut 1959 drama, which Webb also directed.
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Newly arrived in late 1800s Santa Fe, doctor Greer Garson butts heads with fellow physician Dana Andrews in Strange Lady in Town. Guest writer Laura Grieve offers her diagnosis of the 1955 frontier drama, which co-starred Cameron Mitchell and Lois Smith.
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Ann Blyth won critical praise for her portrayal of a troubled ’20s songstress and Broadway star. Guest writer Jessica Pickens reviews the song-filled 1957 biodrama The Helen Morgan Story.
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Years before Zero Hour and Airport, James Stewart played an aeronautics engineer who takes desperate steps to stop a transatlantic flight from ending in disaster. Guest blogger Constance Metzinger takes off with a look at 1951’s No Highway in the Sky, co-starring Jack Hawkins and Marlene Dietrich.
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Guest writer Laura Grieve deals herself in with a review of 1954’s The Gambler from Natchez, a lush mix of frontier drama and swashbuckling action starring Dale Robertson, Debra Paget and Kevin McCarthy.
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Writer/director Joseph Mankiewicz won an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1950’s All About Eve. But was the drama inspired by a true story? Who better than guest blogger The Lady Eve to look at the origins of the classic tale of backstage Broadway backstabbing?
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MGM took a song-filled, nostalgic look back at the birth of talking films with its 1952 musical Singin’ in the Rain. Guest blogger Marsha Collock talks about the timeless Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds/Jean Hagen classic, and “what a glorious feeling” watching it gives her.
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford weren’t the first to play Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the movies. Laura G look at 1954’s Wyoming Renegades, starring Phil Carey as an ex-partner of the infamous duo who tries to reform.
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