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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 […]
Director Paul Wendkos’s 1967 Attack on the Iron Coast stars Lloyd Bridges, who leads a cheaply-made, run-of-the-mill, British-made World War Two wartime action thriller as a Canadian commando called Major Jamie Wilson commanding a suicidal […]
Director Compton Bennett’s 1952 black and white war adventure drama The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] stars Trevor Howard as disliked ship’s captain Lieutenant Commander Hugh Alginon Fraser, who struggles with his crew but wins […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 British black and white comedy Watch Your Stern stars Kenneth Connor as the extraordinarily incompetent Ordinary Seaman Blissworth, who impresses admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew (Noel Purcell) by pretending to be the […]
‘He Ravished The Pirate Port Of Madagascar To Steal The Love Of Its Corsair Queen!’ Director George Sherman’s 1952 Against All Flags is one of Errol Flynn’s last pirate movies, with the on-form star still […]
Esteemed British master craftsman Lewis Gilbert made his name as a director in the Fifties and Sixties with a series of hit films, often based on true stories from the Second World War, such as […]
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 […]