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Director Norman Cohen’s 1971 vintage British comedy film Dad’s Army is set in 1939 in Walmington-on-Sea, England, where George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), manager of St Martin’s Bank, forms the town’s platoon of the Local Defence […]
Writer-director Ettore Scola’s beautiful, wordless 1983 French film tells the 50-year story of a ballroom in France from the 1920s onwards. Le Bal condenses five decades of 20th-century European history into a single night at a dance hall […]
Humphrey Bogart stars in director Zoltan Korda’s sterling 1943 wartime thriller Sahara as an American tank commander called Sergeant Joe Gunn in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War Two. Separated from their […]
Director Allan Dwan’s 1949 war movie Sands of Iwo Jima is a very free dramatisation of the World War Two Battle of Iwo Jima, in which more than 5,000 Americans lost their lives for a small […]
The 1969 American Second World War film The Bridge at Remagen is intelligent, effective and exciting old-style film-making. George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn head a sterling ensemble cast. Based on a real-life true story, director John […]
The strong, tense 1943 wartime patriotic thriller film Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas, who won a deserved Best Actor Oscar as a German underground patriot harassed by Hitler’s men in Washington DC. Bette […]
Director Brian G Hutton’s 1970 World War Two wartime action adventure romp is exuberantly handled and engagingly played by an iconic cast of Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland and Carroll O’Connor. Preposterously […]