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Posts Tagged "french resistance"

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Charlotte Gray ** (2001, Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden) – Classic Movie Review 5208

Cate Blanchett impresses as a Scottish clerk, who in 1943 goes to France, joins the resistance (led by Billy Crudup) and helps two Jewish boys. Exciting bursts of tough action enliven this routine, slackly paced […]

Mar, 28

Is Paris Burning? **½ (1966, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Gert Fröbe, Yves Montand, Orson Welles, Alain Delon) – Classic Movie Review 4738

Director René Clément assembles a huge, excellent Sixties international all-star cast for his earnest, well-meaning but lumbering and convoluted European epic 1966 historical war drama set around the liberation of Paris in 1944 as the French resistance tries to […]

Dec, 02

The Army of Shadows [L’Armée des Ombres] ***** (1969, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3799

Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]

Jun, 04

Paris Underground [Madame Pimpernel] *** (1945, Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields) – Classic Movie Review 3349

Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields form an odd but likeable double act as an American woman and her English friend who join forces to hide Allied fliers from the Nazis in occupied Paris in World […]

Feb, 12

To Have and Have Not ***** (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall) – Classic Movie Review 1346

Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1944 wartime adventure enjoys the enormous benefit of introducing the star pair of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to the screen, in the first of the real-life couple’s series of four movies together. It […]

Jun, 21

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