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They Were Expendable **** (1945, John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 11,493

Director John Ford’s 1945 American war film They Were Expendable is a moving wartime salute to the torpedo crews in the Pacific during World War Two, made by a production team still fresh from the […]

Aug, 19

The Lady Has Plans ** (1942, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 10,943

Director Sidney Lanfield’s 1942 Paramount Pictures black and white film The Lady Has Plans stars Paulette Goddard as newswoman Sidney Royce, who is confused with a tattooed lady criminal and attracts all the wrong kinds […]

Feb, 20

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service ** (1944, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Arthur Loft) – Classic Movie Review 9049

Director Phil Rosen’s 1944 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in the Secret Service re-launches the franchise after 20th Century Fox axed the series following the 1942 Castle in the Desert. Happily, Sidney Toler returns […]

Nov, 03

Watch Your Stern *** (1960, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 8344

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 […]

Apr, 08

We Dive at Dawn **** (1943, John Mills, Eric Portman, Reginald Purdell, Niall MacGinnis, Joan Hopkins, Josephine Wilson, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 6640

Director Anthony Asquith’s excellent 1943 tale of wartime life at home (a brief shore leave) and at sea for a British submarine crew on the HMS Sea Tiger stars John Mills as the skipper, Captain […]

Feb, 02

Murphy’s War *** (1971, Peter O’Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret) – Classic Movie Review 6546

The 1971 British wartime adventure Murphy’s War finds a good role for Peter O’Toole as a sole British naval ship survivor obsessed with blowing up a U-boat. Director Peter Yates’s 1971 British wartime adventure drama […]

Jan, 11

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