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Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – comedy drama film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley [1]; The Baron of Arizona (1950) – Western crime drama film based on the case of James Reavis whose attempted use of false documents to lay claim to the territory of Arizona late in the 19th century came close to success [2]
The 1960s and 1970s marked the rise of exploitation-style independent B movies; films which were mostly made without the support of Hollywood's major film studios.As censorship pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low-budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly incorporated the sort of sexual and violent elements long associated with so-called ‘exploitation’ films.
The scandal surrounding Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking "criminal enterprise" has Hollywood on its toes ahead of his trial, set to begin on May 5, 2025.The revelation turned a once beloved and ...
Ida Lupino, well known as an actress, established herself as Hollywood's sole female director of the era.In short, low-budget pictures made for the production company she ran with her husband Collier Young, The Filmakers, Lupino explored virtually taboo subjects such as rape in 1950s Outrage (released by RKO) and 1953's self-explanatory The Bigamist (an entirely independent project).
Image credits: Tbrown0261 #24. Kirk Douglas might have brutally r*ped a 16 year old Natalie Wood and had an up and coming actress k**led because she wouldn't get an abortion.
Anti-film censorship cartoon published in The Film Mercury magazine, circa 1926. Public outcry over perceived immorality in Hollywood and the movies, as well as the growing number of city and state censorship boards, led the movie studios to fear that federal regulations were not far off; so they created, in 1922, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the ...
September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal; October 11 – Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel; October 15 Maude Eburne, 84, Canadian actress, The Border Legion, Almost Married; Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
Crime thriller [50] The Phenix City Story: Phil Karlson: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant: United States [51] Razzia sur la chnouf: Henri Decoin: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Magali Noël: France [52] Rififi: Jules Dassin: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel: France [53] 1956: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Fritz Lang: Dana Andrews ...