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1950s

Weird Thrillers #4 - Joe Kubert art

houmakeup September 20, 2022

Weird Thrillers #4 Weird Thrillers v1 #4, 1951 - In 19th century France, a retired executioner longs to continue his work. He amasses a list of corr…

1950s

R-35 Robot (Linemar/Masudaya / 1955 / Japan / 7.5 inches)

houmakeup September 04, 2022

Back in the day, toy robots had style. Take, for example, the R-35, a personable little fellow with funky, bulging eyes; a dapper cap; and artfully a…

1950s

MAY FLOWERS

houmakeup July 26, 2022

April Showers bring May flowers! Brigitte Bardot peels down to her flower bra in Mademoiselle Striptease ( Plucking the Daisy /1956). Image availabl…

1950s

News Chronicle

houmakeup July 11, 2022

'News Chronicle' featured a full page of Searle cartoons every week during the early fifties. He lampooned British life; humorous takes on ev…

1950s

Vintage Paperbacks: New Tales of Space and Time & The Explorers

houmakeup June 18, 2022

Long before I began collecting vintage robots and ray guns, I was buying first-edition science-fiction paperbacks from the Forties, Fifties, and Sixt…

1950s

Photo of the day

houmakeup May 28, 2022

Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine "Bulli e pupe" ("Guys and dolls")

1950s

Photo of the day

houmakeup May 20, 2022

Peggy Lee

1950s

The Seventh Seal

houmakeup May 19, 2022

I'm trying to expand my movie watching to more than just English language films. Since last year, I've expanded to French ( the 400 Blows ), …

1950s

Photo of the day

houmakeup May 19, 2022

June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi "Interludio" ("Interlude")

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The Clouded Yellow (1950)

houmakeup May 12, 2022

The Clouded Yellow , directed by Ralph Thomas and scripted by Janet Green, is a 1950 British thriller very much in the style (and deliberately so) of…

1950s

Kings Go Forth

houmakeup May 12, 2022

The usual formula for Hollywood fare back in the 1950s often followed these elements: get a couple of big names in top billing, have a nice blend of …