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Go Tell the Spartans **** (1978, Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith) – Classic Movie Review 9902

Director Ted Post’s 1978 war drama Go Tell the Spartans stars Burt Lancaster as Major Asa Barker, a top US military adviser, who is worrying about Vietnam back in 1964, and he has to save […]

Jun, 13

Darby’s Rangers [The Young Invaders] *** (1958, James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden, Edd Byrnes, Venetia Stevenson, Torin Thatcher, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 8327

‘MAVERICK himself – in his first starring big-screen role!’ The young James Garner plays Major (later Colonel) William Darby and Jack Warden co-stars as Master Sergeant Saul Rosen, and they are among the members of […]

Apr, 02

The Cockleshell Heroes *** (1955, José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Dora Bryan, Victor Maddern, Anthony Newley, Peter Arne, David Lodge, Walter Fitzgerald, Yana, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 8011

Director-star José Ferrer’s 1955 British CinemaScope and Technicolor war film The Cockleshell Heroes is a sturdy account of a brave and dashing World War Two wartime exploit – the planting of mines on German enemy craft […]

Jan, 14

Bitter Victory **** (1957, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 6698

Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]

Feb, 16

The Private War of Major Benson *** (1955, Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey, William Demarest, Tim Considine, Sal Mineo, Nana Bryant, David Janssen, Mary Field) – Classic Movie Review 6511

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1955 movie stars an unusually cast Charlton Heston, who proves that he can play comedy with a deft touch in this amusing story of a big-mouthed, big-hearted American soldier, Major Bernard ‘Bernie’ […]

Jan, 02

Tobruk *** (1967, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 6447

Director Arthur Hiller’s exciting big-budget 1967 World War Two war drama stars George Peppard as German-Jewish Captain Kurt Bergman joining forces with freed Canadian POW Major Donald Craig (Rock Hudson) and British commander Colonel John […]

Dec, 21

The Wonderful Country *** (1959, Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Charles McGraw, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Oakie, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 6352

‘ The pistolero…who was as proud as the mighty black stallion he rode…the man who hungered for the softness of a woman and the clean skies of The Wonderful Country!’ They sure don’t write ’em like […]

Dec, 03

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