Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954, Wyott Ordung)
Monster from the Ocean Floor’s a low-budget creature feature; tourist Anne Kimbell becomes convinced there’s an irradiated sea monster off the coast of her Mexican vacation village. Her pseudo-beau,...
View ArticleDésirée (1954, Henry Koster)
With some notable omissions (paramours, they’re French, after all), Désirée is shockingly historically accurate. Napoleon really did have an ex-girlfriend named Désirée, who ended up the queen of...
View ArticleThem! (1954, Gordon Douglas)
Them! combines Atomic Age giant monster sci-fi and “by the book” police procedural, with a little (too little) war action thrown in. Nine years after the atomic bomb tests in New Mexico, residual...
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson)
With the exception of Grace Kelly (the only significant female character in the film), none of Bridges at Toko-Ri’s main characters are ever explicitly scrutable. Even when the admiral, Fredric March,...
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Pushover (1954, Richard Quine)
As far as suspension of disbelief goes, nothing in Pushover compares to the second scene of the film, when twenty-one year-old Kim Novak makes goggly-eyes over forty-eight year-old Fred MacMurray. Both...
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Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
Seven Samurai is about a farming village, under imminent threat of bandits raiding and stealing their crop–and possibly doing much worse–who decides to hire samurai to defend them. They send four...
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Naked Alibi (1954, Jerry Hopper)
The first half hour of Naked Alibi–the film runs just under ninety minutes so the entire first third–is separate from the remainder. Set in a small city (shot on the backlot, but rather well thanks to...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Theater (1953) s03e12 – The Dark, Dark Hours
The Dark, Dark Hours is the story of two desperate beatnik gunmen who just pulled a job and one of them took a bullet. They need a doctor and they find Ronald Reagan. The beatniks are James Dean and...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Theater (1953) s03e08 – I’m a Fool
I’m a Fool gets off to a somewhat promising, somewhat precarious start. Eddie Albert is an onscreen narrator–precarious–talking about his younger days–his younger self played by James Dean–promising....
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Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
Rear Window is an absurdly good time. It’s breathtakingly produced and the set is a marvel on its own, but it’s also an absurdly good time. You’ve got Thelma Ritter chastising James Stewart not just...
View ArticleMonster from the Ocean Floor (1954, Wyott Ordung)
Monster from the Ocean Floor’s a low-budget creature feature; tourist Anne Kimbell becomes convinced there’s an irradiated sea monster off the coast of her Mexican vacation village. Her pseudo-beau,...
View ArticleDésirée (1954, Henry Koster)
With some notable omissions (paramours, they’re French, after all), Désirée is shockingly historically accurate. Napoleon really did have an ex-girlfriend named Désirée, who ended up the queen of...
View ArticleThem! (1954, Gordon Douglas)
Them! combines Atomic Age giant monster sci-fi and “by the book” police procedural, with a little (too little) war action thrown in. Nine years after the atomic bomb tests in New Mexico, residual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson)
With the exception of Grace Kelly (the only significant female character in the film), none of Bridges at Toko-Ri’s main characters are ever explicitly scrutable. Even when the admiral, Fredric March,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pushover (1954, Richard Quine)
As far as suspension of disbelief goes, nothing in Pushover compares to the second scene of the film, when twenty-one year-old Kim Novak makes goggly-eyes over forty-eight year-old Fred MacMurray. Both...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
Seven Samurai is about a farming village, under imminent threat of bandits raiding and stealing their crop–and possibly doing much worse–who decides to hire samurai to defend them. They send four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Naked Alibi (1954, Jerry Hopper)
The first half hour of Naked Alibi–the film runs just under ninety minutes so the entire first third–is separate from the remainder. Set in a small city (shot on the backlot, but rather well thanks to...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Theater (1953) s03e12 – The Dark, Dark Hours
The Dark, Dark Hours is the story of two desperate beatnik gunmen who just pulled a job and one of them took a bullet. They need a doctor and they find Ronald Reagan. The beatniks are James Dean and...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Theater (1953) s03e08 – I’m a Fool
I’m a Fool gets off to a somewhat promising, somewhat precarious start. Eddie Albert is an onscreen narrator–precarious–talking about his younger days–his younger self played by James Dean–promising....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
Rear Window is an absurdly good time. It’s breathtakingly produced and the set is a marvel on its own, but it’s also an absurdly good time. You’ve got Thelma Ritter chastising James Stewart not just...
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