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Uncommon Valor *** (1983, Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Patrick Swayze, Reb Brown, Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 10,305

Director Ted Kotcheff’s exciting, tough though not-too-violent 1983 action war thriller Uncommon Valor follows the exploits of obsessed US Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) and his dirty half-dozen of crack vets trying to […]

Sep, 14

Regeneration [Behind the Lines] **** (1997, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, David Hayman, Dougray Scott, John Neville) Classic Movie Review 7883

Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]

Dec, 05

I’ll Be Seeing You *** (1944, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 6764

Director William Dieterle’s 1944 film, based on a radio play by Charles Martin, stars Ginger Rogers as Mary Marshall, a jailbird on parole for the holidays, who invites battle fatigue shell-shocked GI Sergeant Zachary ‘Zach’ […]

Mar, 04

Till the End of Time **** (1946, Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Bill Williams, Robert Mitchum, William Gargan, Tom Tully, Jean Porter) – Classic Movie Review 6560

Director Edward Dmytryk’s realistic, well-made, strongly cast 1946 film drama of post-war readjustment has a theme and plotlines very similar to those in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). That much praised film has tended to […]

Jan, 15

Between Heaven and Hell ***½ (1956, Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen) – Classic Movie Review 3402

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1956 war drama stars Robert Wagner as selfish, spoiled, rich Southern gentleman Sam Francis Gifford, who is called up in the US Army. He discovers what friends are for during the war […]

Feb, 23

Spellbound ***** (1945, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 101

‘This is love! Complete…reckless…violent,’ screams the poster as Alfred Hitchcock embarks in 1945 on another delicious tale of obsession and trauma. Spellbound scored six Oscar nominations and won one, for Best Music, Scoring of a […]

Jul, 28

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