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Passport to Suez ** (1943, Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Gavin Muir, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6841

Director André De Toth’s 1943 thriller is a very passable, more than decently done Lone Wolf series entry, with Warren William back one more time in the last of his nine films as the jewel […]

Mar, 22

Play Dirty **** (1969, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6838

Director André de Toth’s last movie is Play Dirty from 1969 and it stars Michael Caine as the British captain in charge of a gang of ex-con soldiers who must obliterate Nazi oil supplies deep […]

Mar, 21

We Dive at Dawn **** (1943, John Mills, Eric Portman, Reginald Purdell, Niall MacGinnis, Joan Hopkins, Josephine Wilson, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 6640

Director Anthony Asquith’s excellent 1943 tale of wartime life at home (a brief shore leave) and at sea for a British submarine crew on the HMS Sea Tiger stars John Mills as the skipper, Captain […]

Feb, 02

Twelve O’Clock High ***** (1949, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 6124

Gregory Peck was Oscar nominated for one of his best roles as Brigadier General Frank Savage, an American bomb-group commander cracking up at a wartime British base, in director Henry King’s outstanding, involving and highly […]

Oct, 21

Churchill ** (2017, Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy) – Movie Review

Try though he might in a valiant effort, Dundee-born Brian Cox doesn’t get past his basic miscasting as Sir Winston Churchill in an interesting but shaky biopic set during the all-crucial 96 hours before the […]

Jun, 16

Ice Cold in Alex **** (1958, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5028

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1958 British World War Two wartime-set thriller Ice Cold in Alex stars John Mills as a British military man, Captain Anson, who leads an ambulance and its medical field unit passengers […]

Feb, 16

The Diary of Anne Frank **** (1959, Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker) – Classic Movie Review 4703

Director George Stevens’s harrowing 1959 wartime drama The Diary of Anne Frank films Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s Broadway play based on Anne Frank’s diaries to very considerable success as a triple-Oscar-winner for Best Supporting […]

Nov, 26

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