1950s &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:1950s @settima@mograph.social Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:39:13 +0200 Black Widow (Nunnally Johnson, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r5m2 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Black Widow (Nunnally Johnson, 1954)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Black Widow (1954)/div div class="caption" Carlotta 'Lottie' Mari (Ginger Rogers) reaching out to Nancy 'Nanny' Ordway's (Peggy Ann Garner). DP: Charles G. Clarke./div div class="txt" – Were you drunk when you did these? – A little. – They're very good. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #NunnallyJohnson #GingerRogers #GeneTierney #PeggyAnnGarner #GeorgeRaft #HughWheeler #RichardWWebb #LeighHarline #CharlesGClarke #BookAdaptation #mystery #crime #fashion #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Black Widow (Nunnally Johnson, 1954)

Jun

6

Black Widow (1954)

Carlotta 'Lottie' Mari (Ginger Rogers) reaching out to Nancy 'Nanny' Ordway's (Peggy Ann Garner). DP: Charles G. Clarke.

– Were you drunk when you did these? – A little. – They're very good.

#FilmDuJour #June #NunnallyJohnson #GingerRogers #GeneTierney #PeggyAnnGarner #GeorgeRaft #HughWheeler #RichardWWebb #LeighHarline #CharlesGClarke #BookAdaptation #mystery #crime #fashion #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r5m2 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t14k <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel, 1954)/div div class="month" June/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1920/div div class="img" Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)/div div class="caption" Inmate James V. Dunn's (Neville Brand) file. He's born on June 5, 1920 and incarcerated in Willows State Prison on August 4, 1950. Somehow he's 32 year's old. DP: Russell Harlan./div div class="txt" And August 4. "You're either in or out. OK?" ### – James V. Dunn /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #August #DonSiegel #NevilleBrand #EmileMeyer #FrankFaylen #LeoGordon #RobertOsterloh #HerschelBurkeGilbert #RussellHarlan #drama #crime #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel, 1954)

June

5

1920

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

Inmate James V. Dunn's (Neville Brand) file. He's born on June 5, 1920 and incarcerated in Willows State Prison on August 4, 1950. Somehow he's 32 year's old. DP: Russell Harlan.

And August 4.

“You're either in or out. OK?”

– James V. Dunn

#FilmDuJour #June #August #DonSiegel #NevilleBrand #EmileMeyer #FrankFaylen #LeoGordon #RobertOsterloh #HerschelBurkeGilbert #RussellHarlan #drama #crime #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t14k Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b6f1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Compulsion (1959)/div div class="caption" Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor./div div class="txt" "Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

May

16

Compulsion (1959)

Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor.

“Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?”

#FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b6f1 Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l4py <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" 1852/div div class="img" The Searchers (1956).png)/div div class="caption" A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnFord #JohnWayne #NatalieWood #AlanLeMay #MaxSteiner #WintonCHoch #kidnapping #western #drama #adventure #BookAdaptation #Arizona #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

May

12

1852

The Searchers (1956)

A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnFord #JohnWayne #NatalieWood #AlanLeMay #MaxSteiner #WintonCHoch #kidnapping #western #drama #adventure #BookAdaptation #Arizona #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l4py Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" birthdays/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)/div div class="caption" Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli./div div class="txt" ##### May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday. "What mystery, what beauty." ### – Karen /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)

May

8

birthdays

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)

Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli.

May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday.

“What mystery, what beauty.”

– Karen

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)/div div class="caption" Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder./div div class="txt" "It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me." ### – Tom Garrett /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

May

7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder.

“It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me.”

– Tom Garrett

#FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped]... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)/div div class="caption" A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts "Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]". DP: Léonce-Henri Burel./div div class="txt" "With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…" ### – Fontaine\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)

May

2

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)

A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts “Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]“. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.

“With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…”

– Fontaine

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:00 +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