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Sailors Three *** (1940, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann, Jeanne De Casalis, James Hayter, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 10,739

Walter Forde’s 1940 British black and white comedy film Sailors Three is a silly, happy, likeable World War Two patriotic Ealing Studios musical farce, with Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding.  Director Walter Forde’s […]

Jan, 02

The Deep Six ** (1958, Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Joey Bishop, Jeanette Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 9975

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1958 war drama adventure The Deep Six stars Alan Ladd as ‘Alec’ Austen, a World War Two Quaker naval lieutenant who loses the respect of his men through pacifist inaction, but regains […]

Jun, 29

Kursk: The Last Mission [The Command] *** (2018, Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow) – Movie Review

Director Thomas Vinterberg’s sterling, well-told, convincing, compelling film version of the true-life tragic story of the 2000 Russian K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is a worthwhile, immersive but challenging and harrowing experience. Kursk: The Last Mission […]

Jul, 14

Malta Story ** (1953, Alec Guinness, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, Renée Asherson, Hugh Burden, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 7996

In the middle of a long run of comedy hits, Alec Guinness seems out of his territory in director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1953 Malta Story, a dully conventional war picture about a British flight lieutenant […]

Jan, 09

The Fighting Seabees **** (1944, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7173

In the last year of his five-year contract with Republic Pictures signed just before the success of 1939’s Stagecoach, John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan in The Fighting Seabees, one of the studio’s typical B-movie wartime […]

Jun, 15

Task Force *** (1949, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Julie London, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7160

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s respectful and involving but surprisingly routine and rather ordinary 1949 World War Two drama stars Gary Cooper as US Navy chief Jonathan L Scott, who tries to persuade his bosses to back […]

Jun, 13

Above Us the Waves *** (1955, John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 6641

Director Ralph Thomas’s earnest and effective 1955 British World War Two wartime drama focuses on a brave band of British sailors (led by John Mills as commander Fraser, James Robertson Justice as admiral Ryder and John […]

Feb, 02

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