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Secret Mission *** (1942, Hugh Williams, James Mason, Roland Culver, Michael Wilding) – Classic Movie Review 13,312

The 1942 British wartime spy thriller film Secret Mission is about the life-or-death mission of four officer agents (Hugh Williams, James Mason, Roland Culver, Michael Wilding) working for British Intelligence. Director Harold French’s 1942 British […]

Dec, 16

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

Fathom *** (1967, Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Richard Briers, Clive Revill, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 6215

Probably you never expected to see a movie with Raquel Welch and Richard Briers paired up together, but this is it in director Leslie H Martinson’s engagingly daft 1967 British caper. There’s a place for […]

Nov, 09

Objective, Burma! **** (1945, Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince) – Classic Movie Review 4754

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1945 war movie stars Errol Flynn as Captain Nelson, who leads his platoon of US army paratroopers in a World War Two attack on a Japanese base after parachuting into Japanese-occupied Burma. […]

Dec, 05

The Eagle Has Landed *** (1976, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 4116

In his final film, director John Sturges’s manly 1976 good, old-fashioned, big-budget wartime adventure thriller movie is based on Jack Higgins’s best-selling novel, set in 1943. It has an eccentric, often miscast all-star roster of players, including […]

Aug, 01

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