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Posts Tagged "world war two"
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In This Corner of the World [Kono sekai no katasumi ni] **** (2016, voice of Rena Nounen) – Movie Review
Co-writer/director Sunao Katabuchi’s extraordinary 2016 anime animation is based on a Manga by Fumiyo Kono. Rena Nounen [Non] provides the voice of Japanese heroine Suzu, who enters into an arranged marriage at the age of 18 in the […]
Alone in Berlin * (2016, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review
Three very good actors – Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl – are stranded through miscasting and poor writing in co-writer/ director Vincent Perez’s earnest and well-meaning World War Two wartime drama Alone in Berlin. It is based on the […]
Millions Like Us **** (1943, Gordon Jackson, Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Irene Handl, Moore Marriott, Joy Shelton, Brenda Bruce, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4695
Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s rousing and persuasive 1943 British wartime propaganda drama Millions Like Us centres on the marriage of shy war-worker Celia (Patricia Roc) to young airman Fred (Gordon Jackson). Also featured is […]
Target for Tonight **** (1941, dir Harry Watt) – Classic Movie Review 4693
‘Actually filmed under fire! The RAF is its cast! The RAF filmed it!’ Director Harry Watt’s renowned documentary of the events leading to the carrying out of an RAF night bombing raid on Germany was […]
Nine Men *** (1943, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4691
Writer-director Harry Watt’s 1943 realist-style World War Two war picture is minor but tense, interesting and impressive. It stars Jack Lambert as Sergeant Watson, Gordon Jackson as the Young ‘un, Frederick Piper as Banger Hill, […]
The Foreman Went to France **** (1942, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans, Robert Morley, Gordon Jackson, Ernest Milton, Francis L Sullivan, Mervyn Johns, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 4684
Ealing Studios’s popular 1942 film is an adroit mixture of comedy, wartime adventure, spy story and semi-documentary authenticity, imaginatively realised by director Charles Frend. Informative and morale-boosting as well as entertaining, it was made with […]
The Goose Steps Out ***½ (1942, Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov, Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell, Barry Morse, Peter Croft) – Classic Movie Review 4554
Will Hay’s outrageous 1942 British farce is an intriguing and endearing collision between wartime morale-boosting propaganda and slapstick comedy, made at the height of World War Two. Its idea to ‘poke fun at the hun’ […]