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Posts Tagged "WW2"

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The Square Peg ** (1958, Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 11,431

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1958 British Rank Organisation black and white war comedy film The Square Peg stars Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman and Honor Blackman. In the original screenplay by Jack Davies, Henry Blyth, Eddie […]

Jul, 29

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

The Night of San Lorenzo [La Notte di San Lorenzo] **** (1982, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli) – Classic Movie Review 10,465

Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]

Oct, 27

The Proud and Profane *** (1956, William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 10,029

The, er, fairly entertaining 1956 World War Two Pacific Island romantic drama film The Proud and Profane gets a lift from stars William Holden, Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter.  Director George Seaton’s 1956 World War […]

Jul, 12

The Very Thought of You ** (1944, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9,734

Director Delmer Daves’s tepid but kindly 1944 wartime romantic drama film The Very Thought of You stars Dennis Morgan as a US Army sergeant, Sgt David ‘Dave’ Stewart in World War Two. Dave and his […]

May, 08

A Midnight Clear **** (1992, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Frank Whaley, John C McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 9611

Writer-director Keith Gordon’s 1992 war drama A Midnight Clear is a moving anti-war tale adapted from William (Birdy) Wharton’s novel by director Gordon, filming in City Park, Utah, ironically during the Gulf War. It tells […]

Apr, 07

For Those in Peril **** (1944, David Farrar, Ralph Michael, Robert Wyndham) – Classic Movie Review 9577

Charles Crichton directs Ealing Studios’ painstaking 1944 patriotic toast to the World War Two wartime RAF Air and Sea Rescue teams For Those in Peril, as disillusioned officer P / O Rawlings (Ralph Michael), who wanted […]

Mar, 30

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