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Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 romantic triangle drama The Woman I Love [The Woman Between] stars Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward and Colin Clive. During World War One, French fighter pilot Lieutenant Claude Maury (Muni) and […]
Director George More O’Ferrall’s 1952 Britain at War film Angels One Five stars Jack Hawkins, John Gregson and Michael Denison, who display their impressive stiff upper-lips to advantage in this sterling tale of life in […]
John Wayne stars in the 1942 black and white movie Flying Tigers as Airman Jim Gordon who leads a Flying Tigers squadron in the US fight against the Japanese, with the help of his seasoned […]
Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 American war film stars Rock Hudson as Lt Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life US fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped to evacuate hundreds of war orphans to safety. Director […]
Writer-director Lewis Gilbert’s inspirational 1955 British drama Reach for the Sky stars Kenneth More, who enjoyed his biggest success when Richard Burton turned down the role of ace British pilot Douglas Bader. Bader painfully learns […]
Director Edmund Goulding’s sterling if penny-pinching 1938 remake of Howard Hawks’s 1930 movie The Dawn Patrol ingeniously includes some of the great dogfight footage and munitions depot explosion sequences that distinguished the first version, as […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]