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Posts Tagged "world war two"
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All My Sons *** (1948, Edward G Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Howard Duff, Louisa Horton) – Classic Movie Review 9311
Director Irving Reis’s 1948 black and white drama All My Sons is based on Arthur Miller’s classic Tony Award-winning play and stars Edward G Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Howard Duff and Louisa Horton. It […]
A Hidden Life *** (2019, August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon) – Movie Review
‘Better to suffer injustice than to do it.’ Writer-director Terrence Malick’s challenging A Hidden Life (2019) is a noble enterprise, an incredibly sincere spiritual film, told with austerity worthy of Robert Bresson or Maurice Pialat, […]
Night Boat to Dublin *** (1946, Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow, Herbert Lom, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton) – Classic Movie Review 9161
Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom enliven writer-director Lawrence Huntington’s very brisk and competent, entertaining 1946 British spy thriller Night Boat to Dublin, with a routine plot about an MI5 man, Captain David Grant […]
Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] **** (1941, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 9160
Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] is a tense, exciting, well-meaning, intelligent British wartime propaganda thriller, in which a Nazi-sympathiser actress, Irena Roder (Diana Wynyard), chums up to Hitler in […]
The Silent Village **** (1943, Villagers of Cwmgiedd) – Classic Movie Review 9153
Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1943 World War Two what if? documentary The Silent Village tells how it could have happened in Wales if there had been similar Nazi atrocities there to those perpetrated in 1942 on […]
Operation Amsterdam ** (1959, Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 9145
Co-writer/ director Michael McCarthy’s 1958 Operation Amsterdam is a decent though low-tension real-life World War Two action drama about British-Netherlands trio Jan Smit (Peter Finch), Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox) and Major Dillon (Tony Britton) linking […]
Fires Were Started [I Was a Fireman] **** (1943, Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 9124
Writer-director Humphrey Jennings’s wonderfully sensitive, realistic and moving 1943 documentary Fires Were Started about a London fire unit’s 24-hour day during the German air-raid bombings of winter 1940 elevates mundane detail to sublime significance and […]