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Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson seem to be ideally cast as Major Jed Webbe, a cynical, boozy army major surgeon, and Lieutenant Ruth McGara, an idealistic, altruistic nurse, who fall in love while working in a […]
Director Lewis Milestone’s tough and distinguished 1959 Korean War movie places a battle for control of a strategic hill in Korea is the centre of the action. It is notable for a series of strong […]
Gene Evans stars as Sergeant Zack, with Robert Hutton as Private Bronte, Steve Brodie as Lieutenant Driscoll and James Edwards as Corporal Thompson, in writer-director Samuel Fuller’s riveting Korean War action drama. It is notable as the first Korean War […]
Cult favourite writer-director Samuel Fuller delivers a tough, rough and robust Korean War action thriller, starting with his intelligent, thoughtful screenplay telling the story of a separated platoon of weary American infantrymen. It is set in 1950 during […]
In director Julian Aymes’s sincere but rather glum and stagey 1956 British film, based on Max Catto’s novel, a retreating British National Service re-con patrol guards a lonely hill temple in Korea and clashes with the Chinese troops […]
Director Robert Altman’s 1970 exhilarating satirical black comedy MASH [M*A*S*H] boasts hilarious dialogue, memorable characters and perfectly cast actors. There are hysterical turns and career-best playing by Donald Sutherland (Hawkeye), Elliott Gould (Trapper John) and Tom […]
Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave finally both won Oscar nominations for their enjoyably extravagant turns in the crowd-pleasing 1998 behind-the-cameras movie Gods and Monsters. Brendan Fraser plays gardener Clayton Boone, a young ex-marine. After 30-odd […]