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The Woman I Love [The Woman Between] ** (1937, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward, Colin Clive) – Classic Movie Review 11,928

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 romantic triangle drama The Woman I Love [The Woman Between] stars Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward and Colin Clive. During World War One, French fighter pilot Lieutenant Claude Maury (Muni) and […]

Feb, 12

Angels One Five *** (1952, Jack Hawkins, John Gregson, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn) – Classic Movie Review 10,346

Director George More O’Ferrall’s 1952 Britain at War film Angels One Five stars Jack Hawkins, John Gregson and Michael Denison, who display their impressive stiff upper-lips to advantage in this sterling tale of life in […]

Sep, 24

Flying Tigers *** (1942, John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7172

John Wayne stars in the 1942 black and white movie Flying Tigers as Airman Jim Gordon who leads a Flying Tigers squadron in the US fight against the Japanese, with the help of his seasoned […]

Jun, 15

Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6670

Director Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 Korean War movie stars his regular actor Rock Hudson, who impresses in a heavyweight role as Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life World War Two bomber pilot and flying chaplain […]

Feb, 10

Reach for the Sky **** (1956, Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook) – Classic Movie Review 5016

Writer-director Lewis Gilbert’s inspirational 1955 British drama Reach for the Sky stars Kenneth More, who enjoyed his biggest success when Richard Burton turned down the role of ace British pilot Douglas Bader. Bader painfully learns […]

Feb, 08

The Dawn Patrol **** (1938, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Morton Lowry, Melville Cooper, Donald Crisp, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 4747

Director Edmund Goulding’s sterling if penny-pinching 1938 remake of Howard Hawks’s 1930 movie The Dawn Patrol ingeniously includes some of the great dogfight footage and munitions depot explosion sequences that distinguished the first version, as […]

Dec, 04

Cottage To Let [Bombsight Stolen] **** (1941, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, George Cole, Jeanne De Casalis, Michael Wilding) – Classic Movie Review 2785

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]

Aug, 07

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