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The Seventh Survivor *** (1941, Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,156

A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another […]

Jun, 02

Das Boot ***** (1981, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) – Classic Movie Review 10,703

Writer-director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 German World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot [The Boat] is based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. […]

Dec, 25

Eye of the Needle *** (1981, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Stephen MacKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8843

Director Richard Marquand’s 1981 British wartime romantic adventure thriller film Eye of the Needle stars Donald Sutherland, who is on best menacing form as Herr Faber, the deadly Nazi agent who discovers a ruse by […]

Aug, 19

Assault on a Queen * (1966, Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 7076

Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]

May, 21

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

The Sea Wolves *** (1980, Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard) – Classic Movie Review 5490

Director Andrew V McLaglen and producer Euan Lloyd’s similar spirited 1980 follow-up to The Wild Geese (1978) stars Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven and Trevor Howard, the esteemed veterans with a then combined age […]

May, 24

The Enemy Below **** (1957, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison) – Classic Movie Review 4931

Producer-director Dick Powell’s great 1957 World War Two watery action adventure epic drama follows the story of an American destroyer and a German U-boat chasing each other around the South Atlantic. Robert Mitchum and Curt […]

Jan, 24

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