Check out all of the posts tagged with "WW2".
Director Clarence Brown’s 1939 show Idiot’s Delight is a delight all right. This MGM version of the Robert E Sherwood hit play is an all-time great movie hit too thanks to Clark Gable’s nonchalant turn […]
Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]
The 1945 classic A Walk in the Sun about one American platoon in the 1943 invasion of Italy is another magnificent milestone war film from producer-director Lewis Milestone, the director of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), […]
Those great tough guys of different cultures Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune star as an American pilot and a Japanese naval officer called Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda, brought together by fate on a small uninhabited island […]
Quentin Tarantino worked on his script for this action thriller for a decade, with a working title of Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France that reflects its curious mix of war film and spaghetti […]
Cary Grant’s spy code-name is Mother Goose in the feather-weight but charming 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose. Director Ralph Nelson’s modest but sprightly 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose stars Cary Grant, […]
Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]