Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "WW2"

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Hostages ** (1943, Luise Rainer, Paul Lukas, William Bendix, Oscar Homolka, Arturo de Cordova, Katina Paxinou, Roland Varno) – Classic Movie Review 13,392

Hostages ** (1943, Luise Rainer, Paul Lukas, William Bendix, Oscar Homolka, Arturo de Cordova, Katina Paxinou, Roland Varno) – Classic Movie Review 13,392

26 Czech citizens are jailed as hostages by the Gestapo until the supposed killer of a Nazi officer – who committed suicide – is handed over, in the 1943 war film Hostages.  Director Frank Tuttle’s […]

Feb, 08

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

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