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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, […]
Director S Sylvan Simon’s sentimental but pleasing 1945 children’s adventure finds its beating heart in Laddie, the son of Lassie, who joins Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford) as a stowaway in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during […]
Gary Grimes stars again in Class of ’44, the welcome 1973 sequel to his breakthrough movie Summer of ’42 (1971), which follows his character Hermie’s progress to college. Director Paul Bogart’s 1973 youth drama Class of […]
Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone star in a fairly awesome movie about using a soccer game to cover an escape from a German POW camp in WWII. Director John Huston’s eccentric 1981 prisoner-of-war adventure hokum […]
Warner Bros reassembles three of Casablanca’s stars in the 1944 film The Conspirators. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre play World War Two resistance workers plotting in Lisbon with a Dutch freedom fighter (Paul Henreid). In […]
The engaging 1956 British wartime espionage thriller film The Man Who Never Was finds British intelligence officers planting phony papers about the Allied invasion of Europe on a drowned man they call Major Martin to […]
Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterly 1975 kaleidoscope of personal imagery has a strong, poetic and characteristic use of the elements and images – the wind constantly moving the tall grasses, the burning barn, the flooded room, […]