Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "World War II"

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Patton ***** (1970, George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3515

Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]

Apr, 02

Hell Is for Heroes **** (1962, Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Bob Newhart, Mike Kellin, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 3460

The youngish Steve McQueen, already aged 32 after 10 years in the business, heads a powerful cast under Don Siegel’s snappy direction for this exciting, realistic 1962 World War Two war movie. It also stars […]

Mar, 08

Hell in the Pacific **** (1968, Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune) – Classic Movie Review 3459

Those great tough guys of different cultures Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune star as an American pilot and a Japanese naval officer called Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda, brought together by fate on a small uninhabited island […]

Mar, 07

Dad’s Army **½ (2016, Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Mays, Blake Harrison, Bill Paterson) – Movie Review

There’s a World War Two German spy at work in Walmington-on-Sea and the old boys of the Home Guard are entranced by lovely visiting female journalist Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in this unexpected sitcom revival movie […]

Feb, 02

A League of Their Own *** (1992, Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 3134

An excellent comedy drama idea about the founding of the All-American Girls’ Baseball League in 1943 when the men were away at war comes close to being chucked away in the popular high-profile 1992 movie […]

Dec, 06

Enigma ***½ (2001, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam, Saffron Burrows) – Classic Movie Review 1187

Dougray Scott stars as code-cracker Tom Jericho, who teams up with eager cipher clerk Hester Wallace (Kate Winslet) to investigate the disappearance of a lovely spy message decoder called Claire (Saffron Burrows). Director Michael Apted’s 2001 release is […]

May, 09

Casablanca ***** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, S Z Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Leonid Kinskey, Marcel Dalio, Madeleine Lebeau) – Classic Movie Review 1

You must remember this: arguably, the world’s best loved film and most perfect piece of cinema escapism. It didn’t look like it would amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world when Warner […]

Jun, 22

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