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Return from the River Kwai **½ (1989, Edward Fox, Chris Penn, Denholm Elliott, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei) – Classic Movie Review 11,655
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1989 film Return from the River Kwai tells the true story about the Japanese (Tutsuya Nakadai, George Takei) escorting a POW battalion of true Brits (Edward Fox, Denholm Elliott) and Aussies […]
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 […]
Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939
Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]
The Colditz Story **** (1954, John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 5789
Co-writer/ director Guy Hamilton’s persuasive, meticulously crafted 1954 World War Two saga of British prisoner-of-war existence in the German Medieval castle of Colditz is based on the book by Pat Reid. It effectively mixes tense […]
La Grande Illusion [Grand Illusion] ***** (1937, Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Jean Dasté) – Classic Movie Review 2790
Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s 1937 humanist and pacifist masterwork about two French officers being captured World War One is one of the great treasures of French and indeed world cinema. It is based on Renoir’s own […]
King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422
George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]
Empire of the Sun ***** (1987, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 833
Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]