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Never So Few *** (1959, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 11,637

Director John Sturges’s 1959 CinemaScope Metrocolor war film Never So Few [Campaign Burma] stars Frank Sinatra as Captain Tom C Reynolds, Allied leader of a tiny but stalwart band fighting the Japanese in Burma in […]

Oct, 09

International Squadron ** (1941, Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 10,671

Director Lewis Seiler and Lothar Mendes’s 1941 American war film International Squadron finds Warner Bros recycling another old script and Ronald Reagan taking on James Cagney’s old role from the 1936 Ceiling Zero (based on Frank ‘Spig’ Wead’s play) […]

Dec, 15

The White Cliffs of Dover *** (1944, Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, Dame May Whitty, C Aubrey Smith, Elizabeth Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,459

Director Clarence Brown’s poignant, well-made but over-sentimental 1944 tearjerker The White Cliffs of Dover stars Irene Dunne as American heroine Lady Susan Dunn Ashwood, who sits idyllically on the white clifftops of Dover with her […]

Oct, 25

The Longest Day **** (1962, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Richard Todd, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 5928

This three-hour 1962 blockbuster epic presents the story of the Allied 1944 D-Day Normandy landings according to Cornelius Ryan’s bestseller, producer Darryl F Zanuck and 20th Century Fox. All of them must share the authorship […]

Aug, 17

Patton ***** (1970, George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3515

Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]

Apr, 02

Paris Underground [Madame Pimpernel] *** (1945, Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields) – Classic Movie Review 3349

Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields form an odd but likeable double act as an American woman and her English friend who join forces to hide Allied fliers from the Nazis in occupied Paris in World […]

Feb, 12

A Bridge Too Far **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann) – Classic Movie Review 1.398

Director Richard Attenborough’s intelligent, well-meaning and honourable 1977 epic anti-war film A Bridge Too Far is rousingly staged on a huge canvas. It grasps the nettle of tackling the tricky subject of a military disaster, […]

Jul, 06

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