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Berlin Correspondent ** (1942, Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris) – Classic Movie Review 11,242

‘He Lived Thru A Nazi Nightmare You’ll Never Forget!’ Director Eugene Forde’s 1942 wartime propaganda thriller Berlin Correspondent tells the amusingly daft tale of a US radio correspondent broadcaster Bill Roberts (Dana Andrews) in Berlin […]

May, 25

Another Time, Another Place ** (1958, Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 10,483

Director Lewis Allen’s 1958 British romantic drama Another Time, Another Place brings together Lana Turner and Sean Connery, along with a series of home-grown comedy stalwarts, including Sidney James, Doris Hare, John le Mesurier, Robin […]

Oct, 30

London Can Take It! **** (1940, voice of Quentin Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 9176

London Can Take It! (1940)  is a classic 10-minute documentary from ace British documentarians Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt on the theme of a tribute to the bravery and resourcefulness of Londoners in the Blitz. […]

Dec, 20

A Private War *** (2018, Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Greg Wise) – Movie Review

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary film-maker Matthew Heineman’s first feature film as director, A Private War (2018), is an honourable toast to old-style newspaper journalism, which is fast disappearing along with books, and its backbone, the old-style reporters who […]

Oct, 20

Somewhere I’ll Find You ** (1942, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle) – Classic Movie Review 6700

Director Wesley Ruggles 1942 wartime romantic drama is the second of the four popular pairings of Clark Gable and Lana Turner at MGM, following Honky Tonk (1941) and followed by Homecoming (1948) and Betrayed (1954). Gable and Robert […]

Feb, 16

Young Winston **** (1972, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins, John Mills, Pat Heywood, Patrick Magee, Edward Woodward, Colin Blakely, Robert Flemyng, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 4642

Director Richard Attenborough’s meticulous, exciting and enjoyable 1972 British historical adventure movie is an ideal subject for him. It is an all-star pageant of Winston Churchill’s early years from his wretched schooldays via serving as […]

Nov, 12

The Story of GI Joe **** (1945, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele) – Classic Movie Review 3253

Burgess Meredith lands a great role as real-life American newsman Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard War Correspondent, in this riveting autobiographical war picture based on Pyle’s wartime memoirs Brave Men and Here Is Your War. Director William A […]

Jan, 09

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