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Assault on a Queen * (1966, Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 7076

Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]

May, 21

A Time to Love and a Time to Die **** (1958, John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6669

John Gavin made two films with German-born director Douglas Sirk in the late Fifties – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) and Imitation of Life (1959) – that greatly raised his profile. Gavin won […]

Feb, 10

We Dive at Dawn **** (1943, John Mills, Eric Portman, Reginald Purdell, Niall MacGinnis, Joan Hopkins, Josephine Wilson, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 6640

Director Anthony Asquith’s excellent 1943 tale of wartime life at home (a brief shore leave) and at sea for a British submarine crew on the HMS Sea Tiger stars John Mills as the skipper, Captain […]

Feb, 02

Operation Crossbow **** (1965, Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Lilli Palmer, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6449

The star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two wartime adventure movie Operation Crossbow stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay.  Director Michael Anderson’s star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two […]

Dec, 22

Bear Island ** (1979, Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6258

Director Don Sharp’s 1979 Canadian-British film Bear Island is yet another Seventies movie version of one of Alistair MacLean’s popular action suspense thrillers, this time his 1971 bestseller, shifting more than eight million copies. This […]

Nov, 15

The Land that Time Forgot *** (1974, Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron) – Classic Movie Review 6222

Director Kevin Connor’s decent 1974 British World War One fantasy adventure yarn The Land that Time Forgot has the traditional obligatory minor American film star Doug McClure at the helm as the hero Bowen Tyler. […]

Nov, 10

The One That Got Away **** (1957, Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander, Colin Gordon, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 5790

Director Roy Ward Baker’s exciting 1957 British wartime adventure film The One That Got Away stars Berlin-born Hardy Kruger, who came to Britain to play Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the real-life German wartime pilot shot […]

Jul, 19

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