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Battle of Britain ** (1969, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Kenneth More, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 7706

Director Guy Hamilton’s 1969 Battle of Britain is a well-meaning and respectful but insufficiently exciting all-star extravaganza made to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1940 aerial attack on England. However this historical re-enactment is […]

Oct, 27

The Sea Shall Not Have Them *** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Redgrave, Anthony Steel, Nigel Patrick, Bonar Colleano, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 7317

Co-writer/ director Lewis Gilbert’s commendably stiff-lipped 1954 British black and white film drama The Sea Shall Not Have Them is based on the 1953 novel by John Harris, with a screenplay by Lewis Gilbert and Vernon Harris. […]

Jul, 20

The Eagle and the Hawk *** (1933, Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7200

Directors Stuart Walker and Mitchell Leisen’s 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk is a modest but decent World War One war action melodrama, starring Fredric March as Jerry Young, a Royal Air Force squadron flier […]

Jun, 20

Bon Voyage *** (1944, John Blythe, The Molière Players) – Classic Movie Review 7103

Bon Voyage (1944) is the first of two French language half-hour wartime propaganda films made during World War Two made by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. Hitchcock had been stung into coming back to […]

May, 27

The Red Beret [Paratrooper] ** (1953, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen) – Classic Movie Review 6987

Just when Alan Ladd hit his career heights with Shane, along came director Terence Young’s mediocre 1953 British-made angst-filled wartime action drama to pull him down again. Ladd plays an American soldier who causes his […]

May, 01

The Glass Mountain **** (1949, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 6275

Director Henry Cass’s poignant popular 1949 love story romantic drama stars Michael Denison as the married English composer Richard Wilder, who is moved to write an opera by two of Italy’s greatest delights – the […]

Nov, 20

Every Time We Say Goodbye ** (1986, Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 6179

Co-writer/ director Moshe Mizrahi’s simple, easy-going, slightly sudsy 1986 romantic movie stars Tom Hanks as David, an eager American World War Two wartime flier who joins the RAF and is recovering in Jerusalem after a leg […]

Nov, 02

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