John Longden · 1950s

2 John Longden movies from the 1950s on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality.

Decade

All 2 1950s 2

Year

All 2 1950 0 1951 0 1952 0 1953 0 1954 0 1955 1 1956 0 1957 1 1958 0 1959 0

The Ship That Died of Shame(1955)

6.7/10

dir. Basil Dearden

A-Tier

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

Indicator · 4K + Blu-ray

Quatermass 2(1957)

6.8/10

dir. Val Guest

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.