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Posts Tagged "world war two"
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Unpublished Story *** (1942, Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 7459
Director Harold French’s 1942 British film Unpublished Story is an intriguing morale-boosting World War Two propaganda drama, played with much spirit by a fine cast, and lifted with some well-written dialogue. German fifth columnists take […]
Desert Mice ** (1959, Alfred Marks, Sidney James, Patricia Bredin, Dick Bentley, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, Marius Goring, Reginald Beckwith, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 7299
Producer/ director Michael Relph’s 1959 British film Desert Mice is a jolly Fifties comedy, predating TV’s similarly themed long-running hit sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, about a wartime concert party performing for British soldiers […]
Morituri [The Saboteur, Code Name Morituri] ** (1965, Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 7,276
The double Oscar-nominated 1965 action war thriller film Morituri stars Marlon Brando, reprising his tormented German character as a World War Two spy called Robert Crain helping the British grab a German freighter helmed by […]
Le Train [The Last Train] **** (1973, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Anne Wiazemsky, Serge Marquand, Maurice Biraud) – Classic Movie Review 7051
With its sour undertow of wartime and doomed love, director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1973 French-Italian World War Two drama film Le Train [The Last Train] is a moving, credible evocation of romance in a time of […]
Two Thousand Women *** (1944, Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renée Houston, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6970
Co-writer/ director Frank Launder’s solid 1944 British wartime comedy drama from Gainsborough Pictures offers plenty of suspense, wartime atmosphere and detail, and some cheerful humour thrown in as well. It stars the formidable line-up of Phyllis […]
Love Story [A Lady Surrenders] **** (1944, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc) – Classic Movie Review 6968
Co-writer/ director Leslie Arliss 1944 black and white British wartime romantic melodrama is something just as engagingly soppy as the famous 1970 Ryan O’Neal-Ali MacGraw Love Story. This one is made by Gainsborough Pictures and stars Margaret […]
Green for Danger ***** (1946, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Megs Jenkins, Leo Genn, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 6960
‘Follow this man in the FOOTSTEPS of MURDER!’ Co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s 1946 British black comedy Green for Danger stars Alastair Sim at the zenith of his comic genius as the eccentric Inspector Cockrill of […]