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International Squadron ** (1941, Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 10,671

Director Lewis Seiler and Lothar Mendes’s 1941 American war film International Squadron finds Warner Bros recycling another old script and Ronald Reagan taking on James Cagney’s old role from the 1936 Ceiling Zero (based on Frank ‘Spig’ Wead’s play) […]

Dec, 15

Angels One Five *** (1952, Jack Hawkins, John Gregson, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn) – Classic Movie Review 10,346

Director George More O’Ferrall’s 1952 Britain at War film Angels One Five stars Jack Hawkins, John Gregson and Michael Denison, who display their impressive stiff upper-lips to advantage in this sterling tale of life in […]

Sep, 24

Iron Eagle II * (1988, Louis Gossett Jr, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 10,189

Sidney J Furie’s 1988 action sequel Iron Eagle II again stars Louis Gossett Jr, who is back as US Air Force General Charles ‘Chappy’ Sinclair, without original star Jason Gedrick as his co-star, and this […]

Aug, 17

Hope and Glory ***** (1987, Sarah Miles, Susan Wooldridge, Ian Bannen, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Derrick O’Connor, Jean-Marc Barr) – Classic Movie Review 9005

The 1987 British nostalgic wartime comedy drama Hope and Glory is a wonderful, warmest-hearted trip down memory lane as John Boorman writes, produces and directs this semi-autobiographical account of World War Two, as seen through […]

Oct, 22

Mosquito Squadron ** (1969, David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8509

The first outing for the RAF’s bouncing bomb, in which in 1944 the British attack a rocket base in France, is related in director Boris Sagal’s odd, very small-scale 1969 World War Two action thriller […]

May, 28

Strategic Air Command *** (1955, James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 7875

Director Anthony Mann’s 1955 Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as Lieutenant Colonel Robert ‘Dutch’ Holland, who sacrifices his baseball career to join the US Air Force and fly A-bomb jets, while his sweet wife […]

Dec, 03

Midway *** (1976, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Edward Albert, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 6254

Director Jack Smight’s 1976 World War Two movie is a detailed, intense re-creation of the heroism at the Battle of Midway in1942, when a small, under-prepared, outnumbered US Navy task force daringly counter-attacked and defeated […]

Nov, 14

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