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Les Maudits [The Damned] **** (1947, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti, Paul Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 11,704

Director René Clément’s 1947 French film Les Maudits [The Damned] is an impressive, well-made and exciting thriller, set at the end of World War Two in 1945, as Germany is losing the war, about a […]

Nov, 05

Devil and the Deep *** (1932, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 11,278

Director Marion Gering’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic drama Devil and the Deep stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant. An extraordinary cast rescues a sinking love-triangle melodrama, as psychotically […]

Jun, 06

Morning Departure [Operation Disaster] **** (1950, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, Lana Morris, Peter Hammond, Helen Cherry, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 8749

The British stalwart reserve and resolve in a crisis is examined in force in director Roy Ward Baker’s intense British classic 1950 real-life submarine naval drama Morning Departure [Operation Disaster]. John Mills stars as Lieutenant […]

Jul, 23

Dream One [Nemo] **** (1984, Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Seth Kibel, Charley Boorman, Katrine Boorman, Harvey Keitel, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc) – Classic Movie Review 8747

Young Jason Connery, as the teenage Nemo, finds himself inside a dream in director Arnaud Sélignac’s charming, surreal 1984 children’s fantasy adventure Dream One [Nemo], inspired by Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comic strip, with plenty […]

Jul, 23

Up Periscope *** (1959, James Garner, Edmond O’Brien, Andra Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8325

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1959 Warner Bros drama Up Periscope is a tale of wartime underwater high-jinks, graced with James Garner as an underwater demolitions expert, US Navy Lieutenant Ken Braden, and Edmond O’Brien as an […]

Apr, 02

The Cockleshell Heroes *** (1955, José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Victor Maddern, Anthony Newley, Peter Arne, David Lodge, Walter Fitzgerald, Yana, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 8011

Director-star José Ferrer’s 1955 British CinemaScope and Technicolor war film The Cockleshell Heroes is a sturdy account of a brave and dashing World War Two wartime exploit – the planting of mines on German enemy craft […]

Jan, 14

The Bedford Incident ***** (1965, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Wally Cox, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 7078

Producer-director James B Harris’s 1965 thriller The Bedford Incident stars Richard Widmark in one of his most satisfying roles as US Naval destroyer commander Captain Eric Finlander, skipper of the American destroyer USS Bedford, who […]

May, 21

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