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Posts Tagged "Korean War"

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The Hook *** (1963, Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr., Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 9396

Director George Seaton’s 1963 MGM black and white Korean War drama The Hook stars Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr and Nick Adams. Three fleeing American soldiers, troubled by their principles aboard a neutral vessel, must […]

Feb, 16

I Want You ** (1951, Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger, Peggy Dow) – Classic Movie Review 8784

Director Mark Robson’s 1951 drama I Want You is producer Samuel Goldwyn’s attempt to update themes from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) in order to examine the way the Korean War affects an […]

Aug, 01

The Bridges at Toko-Ri *** (1954, William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 8479

James A Michener’s bestselling novel about the friendship of two Korean War jet pilots is strongly cast in director Mark Robson’s high-flying 1954 Paramount Pictures production The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The stars (especially William Holden […]

May, 18

Man-Trap *** (1961, Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7281

‘Too many men… Too many thrills… Soon – Too much violence!’ Producer/ director Edmond O’Brien makes the most of his rare chance to direct (his second and last after 1954’s Shield for Murder) in 1961’s brisk, capable black […]

Jul, 11

Period of Adjustment *** (1962, Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver, Jack Albertson, Mabel Albertson, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 7043

Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]

May, 12

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

Battle Circus ** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith) – Classic Movie Review 4272

Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson seem to be ideally cast as Major Jed Webbe, a cynical, boozy army major surgeon, and Lieutenant Ruth McGara, an idealistic, altruistic nurse, who fall in love while working in a […]

Aug, 31

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