1950s English-language films

The Magnet

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

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The Rack

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fightin...

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Carmen Jones

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 6.8

The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to fl...

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The Great Locomotive Chase

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 6.8

During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conduct...

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The Big Knife

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start...

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David

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Told with authenticity and perception, David looks back on the life of a school caretaker in a Welsh mining town, from the marriage and birth of his son to the trauma of a pit accident. David was the...

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