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Items posted under the mood ' 50s '
Life in the Fifties, 1950s, The Cold War, Korean War, Space Race, Cuban Revolution, Rock and Roll
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The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin is a 2017 period comedy-drama film, which chronicles the Soviet power struggles occasioned by the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
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The Founder
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers’ fast food eatery, McDonald’s, into one of the biggest restaurant chains in the world.
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Santa Claus Is Back in Town – Elvis Presley
Santa Claus Is Back in Town is a Christmas song written in 1957 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
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Bridge of Spies
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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Child 44 – Tom Rob Smith
Child 44 is a thriller novel by writer Tom Rob Smith. This is the first novel in a trilogy featuring former MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in the Soviet Union.
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The Imitation Game
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
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The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. A controversial novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.
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White Christmas
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
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Badlands
An impressionable teen girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend go on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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I Heard You Paint Houses – Charles Brandt
HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES is a fascinating account of a dark side of American history. The book’s title comes from the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors.