Movies, politics, and the passage of time

The Fifties spent mostly in Iraqi cinemas, when not in jail

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1959 Henry Fonda is a movie producer who ignores his young wife, Leslie Caron, so she gets a lover and Henry plots to kill that lover

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1940 Joan Fontaine suspects her husband Laurence Olivier in killing his first wife

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1958 Glenn Ford is a submarine captain in WWII intent on sinking Japanese aircraft carrier responsible for Pearl Harbor..rather standard action movie

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1957 Rock is priest AND a fighter pilot (really!) who volunteers in Korean War

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1957 Barbara Stanwyck is forever shamed because she has a child from an Apache chief (played by Mexican Rodolfo Acosta)

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1955 a successful installment of the British doctor comedy series with the usual Dirk Bogarde but with the addition of none other than Brigitte Bardot

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1956 Pow William Holden is accused of succumbing to North Korean pressure so he volunteers to test pilot a new fighter jet

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1959 young, rich students, Leopold and Loeb, in Chicago in 1924 decide t9 kill a kid as a sort of a perfect crime..Clarence Darrow is their defense lawyer

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1957 classic court jury drama..Sidney Lumet’s best

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1958 in Australia, a kid tries all his tricks to get a hunting gun

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1959 a black man, a white man, and a white woman, in post-nuclear war New York

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1956 Hitchcock tries this story again (the first with Peter Lorre in 1934 with Switzerland as background and the kidnapped kid is a girl; here it is Morocco in VistaVision, and the kidnapped is a boy). Not on of Hitchcock’s best but Doris gets to sing her hit song que sera sera

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1956 a divorced British diplomat comes to Spain with his little boy who forms an attachment to the gentle Spanish gardener..father is jealous, accuses the gardener of theft..the kid runs away in protest

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1925 great Soviet cinema classic from Sergei Eisenstein about the rebellion of the crew of battleship Potemkin

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1959 Faulkner s southern aristocracy is facing its doom with the usual histrionics

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1958 Alan Ladd is navy officer but also a Quaker who is against violence but somehow finds a way of reconciling his religious beliefs with military service

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1958 Glenn Ford is a sergeant in WWII who becomes a general after the commanding general is killed, leading his troops to victory