Odette (1950 with Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard)
UK / 1950 Dir: Herbert Wilcox Writer: Warren Chetham-Strode, based on the book Odette by Jerrard Tickell Cast: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee, Marie Burke, Gilles...
View ArticleAppointment In London (1952 with Dirk Bogarde and Dinah Sheridan)
UK / 1952 Director: Philip Leacock Writers: John Wooldridge, Robert Westerby, from Wooldrige’s book Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bill Kerr, Bryan Forbes, William Sylvester, Charles...
View ArticleConspiracy Of Hearts (1959 with Lilli Palmer and Sylvia Syms)
UK / 1959 Dir: Ralph Thomas Writer: Robert Presnell Jr Cast: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne, Nora Swinburne “It is not just another war film. It is...
View ArticleRun Silent, Run Deep (1958 with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster)
USA / 1958 Director: Robert Wise Writer: John Gay, based on the novel by Commander Edward L Beach Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Nick Cravat, Joe Maross, Mary...
View ArticleAbove Us The Waves (1955 with John Mills and John Gregson)
UK / 1955 Director: Ralph Thomas Writer: Robin Estridge (based on a story by CET Warren, James Benson) Cast: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Michael Medwin, James...
View ArticleColditz Story, The (1954 with John Mills and Eric Portman)
UK / 1954 Director: Guy Hamilton Writer: Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell, William Douglas Home (based on the book by PR Reid) Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan...
View ArticleLifeboat (1944 with Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix)
USA / 1944 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: Jo Swerling from a John Steinbeck story Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak Hitchcock’s Oscar nominated...
View ArticleWaterloo Road (1944 with John Mills and Stewart Granger)
UK / 1944 Director: Sidney Gilliat Writer: Sidney Gilliat (from a story by Val Valentine) Cast: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Beatrice Varley, Alison Leggatt, Arthur Denton,...
View ArticleTea With Mussolini (1998 with Cher and Judi Dench)
UK – USA – Italy / 1998 Writer and Director: Franco Zeffirelli (adapted by John Mortimer) Cast: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin Set in pre-War ’30s Italy, Zeffirelli’s film...
View ArticleKing Rat (1965 with George Segal and Tom Courtenay)
UK / 1965 Director: Bryan Forbes Writer: Bryan Forbes (from novel by James Clavell) Cast: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O’Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Donald, Todd Armstrong, John...
View ArticleDamn The Defiant! (1962 with Alec Guiness and Dirk Bogarde)
UK / 1962 Director: Lewis Gilbert Writers: Nigel Kneale, Edmund H North, based on Frank Tilsey’s novel Mutiny Cast: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter, Peter...
View ArticleBridge On The River Kwai, The (1957 with Alec Guinness and William Holden)
UK / 1957 Director: David Lean Writers: Pierre Boulle and (uncredited) Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson based on Pierre Boulle’s novel Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa,...
View ArticleAbove Us The Waves (1955, John Mills, John Gregson)
Producer William MacQuitty spent several years in the Navy and his love of all things nautical -submarines in particular – inspired him to make the action-packed tense British thriller Above Us The...
View ArticlePassing Bells, The (BBC-1 2014, Paddy Gibson, Jack Lowden)
A strong drama tying in with the 100th First World Anniversary Commemorations, The Passing Bells was stripped across five weekday nights and followed the progress of the war through the eyes of two...
View ArticleFooling Hitler (ITV-1 2004, Jason Durr, Dorian Healy)
Drama documentary Fooling Hitler focused on the story of an unorthodox unit put together during Word War II whose task it was to provide deceptions and hoaxes to disguise the real intentions and...
View ArticleGenghis Cohn (BBC-2 1994, Robert Lindsay, Diana Rigg)
Period piece Genghis Cohn, which was broadcast under the Screen Two banner, had something of a dream cast turning in superb performances in this tale set in post world war two Germany where ex-SS...
View ArticleOperation Amsterdam (1958, Peter Finch, Eva Bartok)
“Michael McCarthy’s considerable experience in the documentary field is well in evidence in semi-factual war melodrama Operation Amsterdam set in Nazi-occupied Holland,” wrote Monthly Film Bulletin of...
View ArticleBells Go Down, The (1943, Tommy Trinder, James Mason)
Tommy Trinder and James Mason star in stirring wartime propaganda drama The Bells Go Down that praises the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), the army of volunteers who kept the flames at bay in Britain’s...
View ArticleParer’s War (ABC-1 2014, Matt Le Nevez, Adelaide Clemens)
Wartime drama Parer’s War took us back to 1942. With Darwin under attack, war documentary maker Damien Parer is filming Australian troops fighting the Japanese in New Guinea. He knows he needs to make...
View ArticleEscape To Victory (1981, Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone)
John Huston’s sporting war-time thriller Escape To Victory opens in a German prison camp run by Major Karl von Steiner (Max von Sydow). The senior British officer is Captain John Colby (Michael Caine)...
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