Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Royal Air Force"

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Eagle Squadron ** (1942, Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, Jon Hall, Eddie Albert, John Loder, Nigel Bruce, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 10,673

Sparks fly when Americans enter Britain’s Royal Air Force in director Arthur Lubin’s simplistic and dramatically unrealistic 1942 World War Two airborne action war film Eagle Squadron, which blends fictional and real-life events and fails […]

Dec, 16

A Yank in the RAF ** (1941, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,672

Director Henry King’s 1941 American black-and-white action adventure drama romantic musical war film A Yank in the RAF stars Tyrone Power, Betty Grable and John Sutton. It was sold as a light-hearted look at war rather […]

Dec, 16

For Those in Peril **** (1944, David Farrar, Ralph Michael, Robert Wyndham) – Classic Movie Review 9577

Charles Crichton directs Ealing Studios’ painstaking 1944 patriotic toast to the World War Two wartime RAF Air and Sea Rescue teams For Those in Peril, as disillusioned officer P / O Rawlings (Ralph Michael), who wanted […]

Mar, 30

Mosquito Squadron ** (1969, David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8509

The first outing for the RAF’s bouncing bomb, in which in 1944 the British attack a rocket base in France, is related in director Boris Sagal’s odd, very small-scale 1969 World War Two action thriller […]

May, 28

Battle of Britain ** (1969, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Kenneth More, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 7706

Director Guy Hamilton’s 1969 Battle of Britain is a well-meaning and respectful but insufficiently exciting all-star extravaganza made to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1940 aerial attack on England. However this historical re-enactment is […]

Oct, 27

The Eagle and the Hawk *** (1933, Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7200

Directors Stuart Walker and Mitchell Leisen’s 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk is a modest but decent World War One war action melodrama, starring Fredric March as Jerry Young, a Royal Air Force squadron flier […]

Jun, 20

Son of Lassie *** (1945, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn, Leon Ames, Fay Helm, Nils Asther, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4647

Director S Sylvan Simon’s sentimental but pleasing 1945 children’s adventure finds its beating heart in Laddie, the son of Lassie, who joins Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford) as a stowaway in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during […]

Nov, 13

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