Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "WW2"

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Nine Men *** (1943, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4691

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, […]

Nov, 24

Son of Lassie *** (1945, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn, Leon Ames, Fay Helm, Nils Asther, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4647

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 […]

Nov, 13

Class of ’44 *** (1973, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, William Atherton, Sam Bottoms, Deborah Winters) – Classic Movie Review 4253

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 […]

Aug, 28

Escape to Victory [Victory] *** (1981, Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max von Sydow, Pelé, Bobby Moore) – Classic Movie Review 4115

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 […]

Aug, 01

The Conspirators ***½ (1944, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 3884

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 […]

Jun, 19

The Man Who Never Was **** (1956, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern, André Morell, Geoffrey Keen, William Russell) – Classic Movie Review 3,773

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 […]

May, 25

Mirror [Zerkalo] ***** (1975, Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev) – Classic Movie Review 3568

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, […]

Apr, 14

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