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Posts Tagged "WW2"

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Too Late the Hero **** (1970, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott, Henry Fonda, Harry Andrews, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 8452

Co-writer/ producer / director Robert Aldrich turns in another tough war film in his 1970 Too Late the Hero, with rousing action, funny dialogue and an exciting climax. Michael Caine is engaging in one of […]

May, 10

The Wind Cannot Read *** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Yôko Tani, John Fraser, Ronald Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8200

‘2000 Years of Tradition Said “No!” To Their Love – But Nothing Could Stop It From Happening!’ Director Ralph Thomas’s 1958 British wartime romantic drama The Wind Cannot Read stars Dirk Bogarde at his most […]

Mar, 05

China Girl **** (1942, Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7790

Director Henry Hathaway’s busy, neat 1942 Twentieth Century Fox wartime adventure-cum-romance China Girl stars Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter and Sig Ruman. It is written by Ben Hecht, based on a […]

Nov, 15

Hanover Street * (1979, Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 7785

After hitting the big time with Star Wars, Harrison Ford went into something completely different – and surely regretted it. He plays – forlornly – David, an American bomber pilot stationed in England who meets […]

Nov, 14

Here Come the Waves *** (1944, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran) – Classic Movie Review 7393

Director Mark Sandrich’s rather feebly written 1944 wartime patriotic musical Here Come the Waves is rescued by exuberant stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton and by one great new song –  Harold Arlen (music) and […]

Aug, 03

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 […]

Jul, 16

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt *** (1939, Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth) – Classic Movie Review 6844

Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]

Mar, 22

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