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Posts Tagged "year 1917"

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Aces High ** (1976, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson, Ray Milland, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 10,065

Director Jack Gold’s worthy 1976 reworked film version of the old R C Sherriff play (and 1930 film) Journey’s End is now titled Aces High and transferred to the British air war against the Germans. […]

Jul, 20

1917 **** (2019, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch) – Movie Review

Director Sam Mendes feels it’s timely to bang on about the First World War again in his 2019 war drama 1917. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s about 100 years too late for this film. […]

Jan, 06

The Last Command **** (1928, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 7641

Emil Jannings and William Powell star in the 1928 Oscar-winning silent classic The Last Command as two men who used to be political as well as personal adversaries in revolutionary Russia, who are forced by international politics […]

Oct, 06

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) [Oktyabr] ***** (1927, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov) – Classic Movie Review 7475

Director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1927 documentary-style Russian silent film classic October [Oktyabr] re-enacts the Ten Days that Shook the World (its alternative title) when the Bolsheviks stormed Russia’s Winter Palace in October 1917. Film students […]

Aug, 20

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