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Director Arnold Laven’s 1956 MGM black and white Korean War drama The Rack is rarely shown and virtually forgotten, despite its inherent interest as drama and a cast that includes Paul Newman, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond […]
Director George Seaton’s 1963 MGM black and white Korean War drama The Hook stars Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr and Nick Adams. Three fleeing American soldiers, troubled by their principles aboard a neutral vessel, must […]
Director Mark Robson’s 1951 drama I Want You is producer Samuel Goldwyn’s attempt to update themes from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) in order to examine the way the Korean War affects an […]
James A Michener’s bestselling novel about the friendship of two Korean War jet pilots is strongly cast in director Mark Robson’s high-flying 1954 Paramount Pictures production The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The stars (especially William Holden […]
‘Too many men… Too many thrills… Soon – Too much violence!’ Producer/ director Edmond O’Brien makes the most of his rare chance to direct (his second and last after 1954’s Shield for Murder) in 1961’s brisk, capable black […]
Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]
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 […]