Derek Winnert

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Inchon (1981, Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 11,651

‘LOVE. DESTINY. HEROES. War Changes Everything’ Director Terence Young’s 1981 epic war film Inchon re-creates the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War and is reputedly one of the most expensive films and one of the […]

Oct, 16

Waterloo **** (1970, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 10,367

Director Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 Italian-Russian co-produced historical epic Waterloo showcases fine acting from Rod Steiger as escaped Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as British general Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. The two meet at Waterloo. […]

Sep, 30

The Road to Glory **** (1936, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9755

Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]

May, 12

‘Gung Ho!’: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders ** (1943, Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr, J Carrol Naish, David Bruce, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 9715

Director Ray Enright’s 1943 war movie Gung Ho! stars Randolph Scott as Colonel Thorwald, who leads a tough patriotic wartime propaganda action adventure about US Marines in the Pacific, based on the experiences of Lieutenant W […]

May, 04

The Battle of Neretva [Bitka na Neretvi] *** (1969, Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Curd Jürgens, Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles, Sergei Bondarchuk) – Classic Movie Review 9499

Director Veljko Bulajic’s 1969 historical war drama The Battle of Neretva [Bitka na Neretvi] features a star-studded international cast of Yul Brynner, Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens], Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero and […]

Mar, 12

Fortunes of Captain Blood ** (1950, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 9376

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 swashbuckling adventure film Fortunes of Captain Blood is an acceptably humble adventure, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, though the routine script and direction, and the cheap-looking Columbia Pictures production […]

Feb, 13

Zeppelin *** (1971, Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten, Marius Goring, Anton Diffring, Andrew Keir, Rupert Davies) – Classic Movie Review 8709

Director Etienne Périer’s 1971 wartime adventure drama Zeppelin is a spiffing, busy and fast-moving schoolboy-style spy yarn with the Brits out to steal World War One German airship secrets and stop a daring commando raid […]

Jul, 15

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