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They Were Expendable **** (1945, John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 11,493

Director John Ford’s 1945 American war film They Were Expendable is a moving wartime salute to the torpedo crews in the Pacific during World War Two, made by a production team still fresh from the […]

Aug, 19

The Bounty **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6593

The Bounty (1984) was originally a project for David Lean, who started to work again with screen-writer Robert Bolt on an ambitious two-part movie about the mutiny on the Bounty towards the end of the […]

Jan, 23

San Demetrio London **** (1943, Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Charles Victor, Frederick Piper, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 2827

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 […]

Aug, 18

Mutiny on the Bounty ** (1962, Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2351

The 1962 remake of MGM’s 1935 classic film Mutiny on the Bounty is a lumbering adventure epic version of the famous story. It was nominated for seven Oscars but there were no wins. Director Lewis […]

Apr, 03

Memphis Belle *** (1990, Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 1286

Producer David Puttnam and director Michael Caton-Jones’s honourable British-made 1990 film was inspired by Hollywood director William Wyler’s remarkable 1943 World War II documentary The Memphis Belle (made for the War Activities Commission) about a young […]

Jun, 03

U-571 ***½ (2000, Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 1196

Co-writer/director Jonathan Mostow’s 2000 release is a controversial, but exciting, supposedly real-life World War Two submarine action adventure set in 1942, in which a German submarine is boarded by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture […]

May, 10

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