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Petticoat Pirates * (1961, Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner) – Classic Movie Review 11,480

Director David MacDonald’s 1961 British comedy film Petticoat Pirates stars Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner, Maxine Audley, Thorley Walters and Victor Maddern. When a group of 150 women’s UK Royal Navy Wrens, commanded by officer-in-charge Chief […]

Aug, 15

The Deep Six ** (1958, Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Joey Bishop, Jeanette Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 9975

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1958 war drama adventure The Deep Six stars Alan Ladd as ‘Alec’ Austen, a World War Two Quaker naval lieutenant who loses the respect of his men through pacifist inaction, but regains […]

Jun, 29

The Sea Chase *** (1955, John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness, Dick Davalos, John Qualen, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 7802

Director John Farrow’s 1955 wartime action adventure The Sea Chase has an extraordinary piece of casting in John Wayne playing Captain Karl Erlich, the anti-Nazi German captain of a freighter, anxious to set out from Sydney […]

Nov, 18

In Harm’s Way *** (1965, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tyron, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda, Brandon de Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5922

Director Otto Preminger’s bumpy, but ambitious and sometimes exciting big-name 1965 naval drama set against a background of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service’s sudden surprise military attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the […]

Aug, 16

The Battle of the River Plate [Pursuit of the Graf Spee] *** (1956, John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Ian Hunter, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5506

One of writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s final films together is this sturdy if surprisingly routine 1956 Second World War movie about the British Royal Navy’s pursuit and scuttling of the German pocket battleship Graf […]

May, 26

Sailor of the King *** (1953, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 1645

Director Roy Boulting’s 1953 Second World War-set Royal Navy yarn Sailor of the King, cut from the same cloth as a thousand other wartime adventures, spins the proficient tale of eager young rookie Signalman Brown […]

Sep, 07

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