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In Our Time *** (1944, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Nazimova, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 11,958

‘Their Love was all these things – It Was Daring! It Was Defiant! It Was Irrepressible! It Was Rapturous!’ Director Vincent Sherman’s 1944 Warner Bros black and white film In Our Time is a conscientious […]

Feb, 25

Bitter Victory **** (1957, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 6698

Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]

Feb, 16

Betrayed ** (1954, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 6,665

MGM’s creakily old-fashioned 1954 romantic spy drama film Betrayed stars Clark Gable as a wartime Dutch spy boss who recruits Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) to liaise with dashing Resistance leader The Scarf (Victor Mature). […]

Feb, 09

Anzio [Lo sbarco di Anzio] ** (1968, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon) – Classic Movie Review 6448

The exciting star cast of Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy and Robert Ryan, and a lavish production spearhead director Edward Dmytryk’s 1968 movie attack on the World War Two story of the allied invasion […]

Dec, 21

Sahara **** (1943, Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Dan Duryea, Richard Nugent, Louis Mercier, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 3197

Humphrey Bogart stars in director Zoltan Korda’s sterling 1943 wartime thriller Sahara as an American tank commander called Sergeant Joe Gunn in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War Two. Separated from their […]

Dec, 30

To Be or Not To Be **** (1983, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1944

Director Alan Johnson’s surprisingly entertaining and successful 1983 remake of the classic 1942 Jack Benny-Carole Lombard World War Two wartime comedy drama stars Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft. It is the first time […]

Dec, 10

The Imitation Game **** (2014, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode) – Movie Review

Debut screenwriter Graham Moore fashions an enjoyable, popular screenplay out of Andrew Hodges‘s book about legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and director Morten Tyldum makes a crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned entertainment out of it. Turing joins the team of code-breakers at Britain’s […]

Oct, 10

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