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Beau Geste ** (1966, Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 5414

Beau Geste (1966): Guy Stockwell and Doug McClure star as American brothers Beau and John Geste who join the French Foreign Legion, suffer under nasty Sgt Major Dagineau (Telly Savalas), and fight rampaging Arabs in […]

May, 07

Beau Geste **** (1939, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5413

‘The love of a man for a woman wanes and waxes like the moon… but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars, and endures like the word of the Prophet.’ Producer-director […]

May, 07

Ice Cold in Alex **** (1958, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5028

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1958 British World War Two wartime-set thriller Ice Cold in Alex stars John Mills as a British military man, Captain Anson, who leads an ambulance and its medical field unit passengers […]

Feb, 16

Allied ** (2016, Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Simon McBurney) – Movie Review

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard play a Canadian airman and a French Resistance fighter, who meet and fall in love in wartime Casablanca, where they eventually assassinate the Nazi ambassador. [Spoiler alert] Later in London, Max […]

Nov, 28

The Story of GI Joe **** (1945, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele) – Classic Movie Review 3253

Burgess Meredith lands a great role as real-life American newsman Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard War Correspondent, in this riveting autobiographical war picture based on Pyle’s wartime memoirs Brave Men and Here Is Your War. Director William A […]

Jan, 09

The Hill **** (1965, Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear, Michael Redgrave, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 2114

Director Sidney Lumet’s distinguished, brutal 1965 military drama The Hill is a showcase for tour de force acting from Sean Connery as Joe Roberts, one of the five new prisoners being punished in a British […]

Jan, 25

The Way Ahead **** (1944, David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 1806

Director Carol Reed’s 1944 World War Two morale-boosting drama The Way Ahead is adapted from Eric Ambler’s story in an excellent, rousing screenplay by himself and future two-time Oscar-winning actor Peter Ustinov (Spartacus, Topkapi). Reed […]

Nov, 05

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