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- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
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Convoy **** (1940, Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 11,200
Director Pen Tennyson’s 1940 British Ealing Studios black and white flag-waving war film Convoy is a suitably laid-back, grace-under-fire portrayal of everyday World War Two seafaring existence. It is his third and last film. But […]
The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] *** (1952, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 8500
Director Compton Bennett’s 1952 black and white war adventure drama The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] stars Trevor Howard as disliked ship’s captain Lieutenant Commander Hugh Alginon Fraser, who struggles with his crew but wins […]
Watch Your Stern *** (1960, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 8344
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 British black and white comedy Watch Your Stern stars Kenneth Connor as the extraordinarily incompetent Ordinary Seaman Blissworth, who impresses admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew (Noel Purcell) by pretending to be the […]
Sink the Bismarck! *** (1960, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Karel Stepanek, Carl Mohner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Hordern, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 6749
Esteemed British master craftsman Lewis Gilbert made his name as a director in the Fifties and Sixties with a series of hit films, often based on true stories from the Second World War, such as […]
HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] **** (1962, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Nigel Stock, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 6,382
Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde star in the stirring 1962 Napoleonic Wars sea saga film HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] about the on-board clash on the British vessel in 1797. Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde […]
Up the Creek *** (1958, David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries, Lionel Murton, David Lodge, Sam Kydd) – Classic Movie Review 1853
Co-writer/director Val Guest’s 1958 British naval farce Up the Creek is creakily written but it is rescued from sinking by some amusing gags and situations, but mainly by the performances, especially from Peter Sellers proving […]
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