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Posts Tagged "resistance"
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Uncensored ** (1942, Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 11,876
Director Anthony Asquith’s 1942 British World War Two wartime film Uncensored is based on the 1937 novel by Oscar Millard, is set in occupied Belgium, and stars Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones. André Delange […]
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 […]
Il Generale della Rovere *** (1959, Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo) – Classic Movie Review 10,271
Roberto Rossellini’s intriguing and intelligent if rather sluggish and overlong (138 minutes) flagwaving 1959 black and white wartime picture Il Generale della Rovere has lots of interesting psychological things to say about the nature of […]
This Land Is Mine *** (1943, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O’Connor, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8977
Director Jean Renoir’s 1943 black and white wartime drama This Land Is Mine is perfectly constructed and strongly cast but it lacks his usual panache, partly because of Dudley Nichols’s routine screenplay and situations. Charles […]
Aventure Malgache *** (1944, Paul Bonifas, Paul Clarus, Jean Dattas) – Classic Movie Review 7102
Alfred Hitchcock’s second British wartime propaganda short film in French Aventure Malgache (1944) was made immediately after Bon Voyage and was again filmed by him for the British Ministry of Information. Hitchcock recalled ‘It was […]
Hitler’s Madman [Hitler’s Hangman] *** (1943, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 6381
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]
Plenty *** (1985, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Ian McKellen, André Maranne, Bert Kwouk) – Classic Movie Review 6377
Meryl Streep heads an outstanding cast in Fred Schepisi’s 1985 film of the David Hare play about Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman whose work for the French resistance in World War Two eclipses all of her […]