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‘A hero of war. A casualty of peace. With only one hope for survival. His son.’ Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1988 drama Distant Thunder is a well-played and likeable, but clichéd and over-sentimental Canadian tearjerker, though […]
Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1945 British black and white wartime romantic drama movie Waterloo Road for Gainsborough Pictures stars John Mills as English soldier Jim Colter, who is called up to fight in World War Two. […]
For its 1954 20th Century Fox film musical Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein’s renowned contemporary update on the Georges Bizet opera Carmen provides new, modernised lyrics and an African-American cast. It has ideal casting with Dorothy […]
Director Joseph Losey’s 1964 film stars Tom Courtenay as Private Hamp, a slightly dim, uncomprehending First World War soldier who walks shell shocked away from the rat-infested Passchendaele trenches and is arrested for desertion. [Spoiler […]
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