1950s &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:1950s @settima@zirk.us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:18 +0200 Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-szl7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Vulcano (1950).png)/div div class="caption" A letter from Pietro, dated April 23, 1949 DP: Arturo Gallea./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WilliamDieterle #AnnaMagnani #RossanoBrazzi #GeraldineBrooks #EduardoCiannelli #EnzoStaiola #EnzoMasetti #ArturoGallea #volcanos #islands #drama #romance #crime #prostitution #Salina #Italy #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950)

Apr

23

1949

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Vulcano (1950)

A letter from Pietro, dated April 23, 1949 DP: Arturo Gallea.

 

#FilmDuJour #April #WilliamDieterle #AnnaMagnani #RossanoBrazzi #GeraldineBrooks #EduardoCiannelli #EnzoStaiola #EnzoMasetti #ArturoGallea #volcanos #islands #drama #romance #crime #prostitution #Salina #Italy #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-szl7 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Misterios de la magia negra [Mysteries of Black Magic] (Miguel M. Delgado, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mwys <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Misterios de la magia negra [Mysteries of Black Magic] (Miguel M. Delgado, 1958)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Misterios de la magia negra (1958)/div div class="caption" Two well-dressed women, one of them prostrated on a stone slab. DP: Víctor Herrera./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #MiguelMDelgado #GustavoCésarCarrión #VíctorHerrera #horror #witches #Mexico #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Misterios de la magia negra [Mysteries of Black Magic] (Miguel M. Delgado, 1958)

Apr

12

Misterios de la magia negra (1958)

Two well-dressed women, one of them prostrated on a stone slab. DP: Víctor Herrera.

#FilmDuJour #April #MiguelMDelgado #GustavoCésarCarrión #VíctorHerrera #horror #witches #Mexico #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mwys Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w3gj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 1. April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 2000/div div class="img" 1. April 2000 (1952)/div div class="caption" The President of the Global Union (Hilde Krahl) stepping out of her spaceship. DPs: Sepp Ketterer, Karl Löb & Fritz Arno Wagner./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WolfgangLiebeneiner #HildeKrahl #JosefMeinrad #JosefFiedler #AloisMelichar #RobertStolz #SeppKetterer #KarlLöb #FritzArnoWagner #SciFi #comedy #satire #politics #Austria #1950s /div /section ]]>

1. April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952)

Apr

1

2000

1. April 2000 (1952)

The President of the Global Union (Hilde Krahl) stepping out of her spaceship. DPs: Sepp Ketterer, Karl Löb & Fritz Arno Wagner.

#FilmDuJour #April #WolfgangLiebeneiner #HildeKrahl #JosefMeinrad #JosefFiedler #AloisMelichar #RobertStolz #SeppKetterer #KarlLöb #FritzArnoWagner #SciFi #comedy #satire #politics #Austria #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w3gj Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 7 p.m./div div class="img" 野獣死すべし (1959)/div div class="caption" Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi./div div class="txt" "He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)

Mar

30

7 p.m.

野獣死すべし (1959)

Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi.

“He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society.”

#FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d0bj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Bell Book and Candle (1958)/div div class="caption" Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her Siamese, Pyewacket. DP: James Wong Howe./div div class="txt" "I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… 'What would you say if I told you I was a witch?'" ### – Queenie /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #RichardQuine #JohnVanDruten #GeorgeDuning #JamesWongHowe #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #witches #witchcraft #cats #theatre #USA #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)

Mar

12

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her Siamese, Pyewacket. DP: James Wong Howe.

“I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… 'What would you say if I told you I was a witch?'”

– Queenie

#FilmDuJour #March #RichardQuine #JohnVanDruten #GeorgeDuning #JamesWongHowe #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #witches #witchcraft #cats #theatre #USA #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d0bj Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yb4c <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Hell Bound (1957)/div div class="caption" A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie./div div class="txt" "Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact." ### – narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #DehlBerti #GeorgeEMather #LesBaxter #CarlEGuthrie #crime #drama #romance #FilmNoir #drugs #heist #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)

Mar

12

Sat

Hell Bound (1957)

A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie.

“Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #March #WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #DehlBerti #GeorgeEMather #LesBaxter #CarlEGuthrie #crime #drama #romance #FilmNoir #drugs #heist #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yb4c Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1958/div div class="img" First Man Into Space (1959)/div div class="caption" A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull./div div class="txt" "The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)

Feb

28

1958

First Man Into Space (1959)

A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull.

“The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk.”

#FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 暗黒街の美女 (1958)/divdiv class="caption" ###### A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8supth/sup. DP: Wataro Nakao./div div class="txt" Policeman: What's today's date? Injured man: February 8supth/sup. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)

Feb

8

暗黒街の美女 (1958)

A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8th. DP: Wataro Nakao.

Policeman: What's today's date?

Injured man: February 8th.

#FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Sleeping Tiger (1954)/div div class="caption" A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman ./div div class="txt" "If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys." ### – Glenda Esmond /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)

Jan

14

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman .

“If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys.”

– Glenda Esmond

#FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1nw4 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" Nowhere to Go (1958).png)/div div class="caption" A man checks into a hotel. A wall calendar reads December 22, a Tuesday. DP: Paul Beeson ./div div class="txt" "Sloane! Be lucky!" ### – Paul Gregory /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #SethHolt #BasilDearden #DonaldMacKenzie #GeorgeNader #MaggieSmith #BernardLee #DizzyReece #PaulBeeson #drama #crime #FilmNoir #jazz #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958)

Dec

22

Tue

Nowhere to Go (1958)

A man checks into a hotel. A wall calendar reads December 22, a Tuesday. DP: Paul Beeson .

“Sloane! Be lucky!”

– Paul Gregory

#FilmDuJour #December #SethHolt #BasilDearden #DonaldMacKenzie #GeorgeNader #MaggieSmith #BernardLee #DizzyReece #PaulBeeson #drama #crime #FilmNoir #jazz #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1nw4 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100