Sahara (1943, Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett)
Sahara is a thrilling Second World War drama based on an incident in the 1937 Russian film Trinadstat / The Thirteen. James O’Hanlon adapted it for the screen and John Howard Lawson (who would later...
View ArticleWay To The Stars, The (1945, John Mills, Michael Redgrave)
The Way to the Stars is a superior wartime drama set in an RAF base, starring John Mills, Michael Redgrave and Trevor Howard. Terence Rattigan’s script steers clear of aerial heroics to concentrate on...
View ArticleAces High (1976, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer)
With the permission of the playwright, Howard Barker vividly adapted R C Sherriff’s celebrated 1929 World War One play Journey’s End for the screen, making the protagonists Royal Flying Corps pilots...
View ArticleLong And The Short And The Tall, The (1960, Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd)
Willis Hall’s play The Long And The Short And The Tall, directed by Barry Norman’s father Leslie, was part of the post-Look Back in Anger flowering at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square....
View ArticleWish Me Luck (ITV 1988-1990, Kate Buffery, Suzanna Hamilton)
Drawing comparisons with such shows as Secret Army and Manhunt Wish Me Luck stars Kate Buffery (in her first big lead role) as 20-something Liz Graniger, she has a five year old daughter and her...
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Millions Like Us (1943, Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson)
Warmly co-written and very well co-directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, Millions Like Us provides a vivid and realistic portrait of a British family during World War Two. In 1939 father MOORE...
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Jane (BBC-2 1982, Glynis Barber, Robin Bailey)
Jane was a clever BBC series of the early 1980’s mixing cartoon backgrounds with live actors. Jane had been created by Norman Pett as a comic strip that appeared in the Daily Mirror during world war II...
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Baby And The Battleship, The (1956, John Mills, Richard Attenborough)
John Mills and Richard Attenborough were ideally cast in The Baby and The Battleship and were at their lower-decks best as sailors who go ashore when their battleship puts in at Naples. They visit...
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Canterbury Tale, A (London 1944, Eric Portman, Esmond Knight)
Classic British film A Canterbury Tale from director Michael Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger looks at British-American relations in World War II England. A justice of the peace in a small...
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Long Voyage Home, The (United Artists 1940, John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald)
The Long Voyage Home sees four one-acts by Eugene O’Neill add up to a gripping account of men thrown together by war facing danger from the enemy under the waves and from the raging sea itself. John...
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P.O.W. (ITV 2003, James D’Arcy, Patrick Baladi)
Wartime drama series telling tales of life in a World War II German P.O.W. camp. The series tells the story of the solidarity between a group of lads thrown together in the face of adversity but with...
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (TCF 1970, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotton)
Tora! Tora! Tora! was a hands-across-the-waters production with Japanese directors depicting the preparation to attack Pearl Harbor and an American director showing the U.S.’s cluelessness. The actual...
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Bridge 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,...
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Bells 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...
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Battle Of The Coral Sea (Columbia 1959 with Cliff Robertson and Teru Shimada)
USA / Columbia / 85 minutes / 1959 made in black and white Writer: Daniel Ullman, Stephen Kandel (from a story by Stephen Kandel) / Producer: Charles H. Schncer / Director: Paul Wendkos Cast: Cliff...
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Appointment 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...
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All Through the Night (Warner 1942, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre)
Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre spoof their screen personas in All Through The Night, a send-up of WWII spy intrigues. Broadway big-shot and part-time gangster “Gloves” Donahue becomes a full-time...
View ArticleAll The King’s Men (BBC-1 1999 with David Jason and Maggie Smith)
UK / BBC1-WGBH Boston / 1×110 minute episode /1999 14 Nov – Sun 9.00pm Writer: Alma Cullen / Music: Adrian Johnston / Costume: Howard Burden / Design:David Woods /Military Advisor:Taff Gillingham /...
View ArticleAlbert (BBC 1951 with Bill Travers and Michael Gough)
UK / BBC / 1×100 minute episodes / Broadcast 12 August 1951 Writers: Edward Sammis, Guy Morgan / Producer: Stephen Harrison Wartime drama. During the second world war a group of allied P.O.W.s use a...
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Above 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...
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