443 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1950s
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Washington New York The 1950sALL NEW! funnier than ever! — The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholarship. However, who ever has the nicest looking farm and raises their kids in a good enviroment has a chance of winning.
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The War of the Worlds
California The 1950sMighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades! — The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Island in the Sky
Newfoundland and Labrador The 1950sHe Fought Every Futy of Man and Mountain To Get Where His Woman Was! — A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Washington New York 🇫🇷 France The 1950sIt's all NEW...It's all FUN! — The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.
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Mexican Manhunt
🇲🇽 Mexico California The 1950sMURDER WAS HIS PASSPORT! — Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
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Japanese War Bride
California 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sWhy did he have to marry someone like you? — A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
District of Columbia The 1950sFrom out of space... A warning and an ultimatum — An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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Mr. Imperium
California The 1930s The 1950sA pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Washington The 1950sBack where the FUN began! — The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."
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Symphony in Slang
Illinois Texas The 1950sAt the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
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Starlift
California 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s18 Stars are in it... and more wonders than you can count! — To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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Sunset Boulevard
California The 1950sA Hollywood Story — A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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711 Ocean Drive
California The 1950sExpose of the $8,000,000,000 gambling syndicate and its hoodlum empire! — The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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A Life of Her Own
New York The 1950sLana...as Lily James...a girl who knew what she wanted...and almost got it! — A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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Merrily We Roll Along
California New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sMerrily We Roll Along follows Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career in New York and all his friends in order to produce movies in Los Angeles. The musical begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.
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Reagan
District of Columbia California Illinois The 1980s The 1950s The 1940sA drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.
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Please Baby Please
New York The 1950sNewlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary about the couple’s sexual identity after witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of a surreal 1950s Manhattan.