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The Day Will Dawn [The Avengers] *** (1942, Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 13,118

The entertaining 1942 British war film The Day Will Dawn [The Avengers] is set in Norway in World War Two, and stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, and Francis L Sullivan. Director […]

Sep, 13

The Forger [Der Passfälscher] ***½ (2022, Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler) – Classic Movie Review 12,530

Louis Hofmann stars as Cioma Schönhaus, a 21-year-old German graphic artist who lives illegally as a Jew in hiding in Berlin during World War Two, in the tense and compelling 2022 real-life wartime thriller The […]

Jun, 04

Undercover [Underground Guerrillas] ** (1943, John Clements, Mary Morris, Stephen Murray, Tom Walls, Michael Wilding, Godfrey Tearle, Stanley Baker) – Classic Movie Review 12,449

Ealing Studios’ 1943 British war film Undercover [Underground Guerrillas] stars John Clements, Mary Morris, Stephen Murray, Tom Walls, Michael Wilding, and a 15-year-old Stanley Baker. Its story is about a guerrilla movement in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.  […]

Mar, 18

The Big Blockade *** (1942, Leslie Banks, Robert Morley, Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Will Hay) – Classic Movie Review 12,281

Charles Frend’s workable but undistinguished 1942 British war film The Big Blockade is Ealing Studios’ documentary-drama about Britain’s economic blockade of Nazi Germany. Director Charles Frend’s workable 1942 British black-and-white war film The Big Blockade is Ealing […]

Aug, 15

Act of Love ** (1954, Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Barbara Laage, Robert Strauss, Gabrielle Dorziat, Grégoire Aslan, Brigitte Bardot, Serge Reggiani)- Classic Movie Review 12,197

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1953 black and white bitter-sweet romance film Act of Love [Un acte d’amour] stars Kirk Douglas as an American soldier with the French Liberation Army in 1944 who falls for a young […]

Jun, 24

Crash Dive *** (1943, Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 12,188

Director Archie Mayo’s Oscar-winning 1943 World War Two film in Technicolor Crash Dive stars Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews. Tyrone Power plays handsome young American lieutenant Lt. Ward Stewart, a naval warfare expert, who […]

Jun, 22

Young Widow * (1946, Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 12,187

Director Edwin L Marin’s tepid 1946 drama film Young Widow is Jane Russell’s debut, and also stars Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson, Kent Taylor, Penny Singleton, Connie Gilchrist, Cora Witherspoon, Norman Lloyd, Steve Brodie […]

Jun, 21

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