Derek Winnert

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo *** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Don DeFore, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 10,333

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1944 black-and-white war drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a careful version of the events surrounding the US bombing of Tokyo in 1942 in The Doolittle Raid, a secret bombing mission to […]

Sep, 21

Task Force *** (1949, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Julie London, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7160

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s respectful and involving but surprisingly routine and rather ordinary 1949 World War Two drama stars Gary Cooper as US Navy chief Jonathan L Scott, who tries to persuade his bosses to back […]

Jun, 13

Midway *** (1976, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Edward Albert, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 6254

Director Jack Smight’s 1976 World War Two movie is a detailed, intense re-creation of the heroism at the Battle of Midway in1942, when a small, under-prepared, outnumbered US Navy task force daringly counter-attacked and defeated […]

Nov, 14

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