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Beach Red *** (1967, Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning) – Classic Movie Review 10,167

Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1967 war movie Beach Red stars Cornel Wilde as Captain MacDonald, the film’s narrator, and Rip Torn as the none too well named Sergeant Honeywell (‘That’s what we’re here for. To kill. […]

Aug, 12
The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

Director Val Guest’s brutal and controversial British exploitation movie for Hammer Films – the 1958 The Camp on Blood Island – shows the Brits in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaya trying desperately […]

Jul, 08

Marine Raiders ** (1944, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 7383

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1944 RKO Radio Pictures release Marine Raiders is a minor but intriguing wartime action movie plus romantic drama, with the emphasis on the details of Second World War troop training. Pat O’Brien and […]

Aug, 01

A Town Like Alice [The Rape of Malaya] *** (1956, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Marie Lohr, Maureen Swanson, Jean Anderson, Renée Houston, Nora Nicholson, Vincent Ball) – Classic Movie Review 5792

Director Jack Lee’s 1956 film is a solid, sincere but under-powered version of Nevil Shute’s bestseller about the Japanese invasion of Malaya and the suffering of a group of British women rounded up and sent to […]

Jul, 20

Malaya [East of the Rising Sun] *** (1949, Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Valentina Cortese, Lionel Barrymore, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 3878

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1949 drama is based on a story by Manchester Boddy and stars the very special gang of actors – Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Valentina Cortese [Cortesa], Lionel Barrymore, […]

Jun, 17

Empire of the Sun ***** (1987, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 833

Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]

Feb, 16

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