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South Sea Woman ** (1953, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 8553

Between two of his most important movies, Come Back Little Sheba and From Here to Eternity, the great Burt Lancaster went coasting in director Arthur Lubin’s 1953 time-filler adventure South Sea Woman, though Lancaster and […]

Jun, 04

Marine Raiders ** (1944, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 7383

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1944 RKO Radio Pictures release Marine Raiders is a minor but intriguing wartime action movie plus romantic drama, with the emphasis on the details of Second World War troop training. Pat O’Brien and […]

Aug, 01

Flying Leathernecks ** (1951, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter, Don Taylor, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 6996

Director Nicholas Ray’s 1951 wartime action drama stars John Wayne and Robert Ryan as airborne commander Major Daniel Xavier Kirby and executive officer Captain Carl ‘Griff’ Griffin, who fight it out over whether Major Kirby […]

May, 04

The Gallant Hours *** (1960, James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 6779

Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]

Mar, 08

Pride of the Marines ***½ (1945, John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Ann Doran, John Ridgely) – Classic Movie Review 4763

Co-writer/ director Delmer Daves’s 1945 biographical war drama film tells the true-life story of Al Schmid (John Garfield), the American Marine war hero blinded by a grenade while holding off the Japanese against impossible odds in a heroic stand […]

Dec, 05

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