American-produced-directed-written films by Richard Bartlett and Earle Lyon were guaranteed to resemble something Read More »
War
The Flying Fool (1929) Tay Garnett, William Boyd, Marie Prevost, Tom O’Brien
Bill Taylor, World War I flying ace is a hot-shot barnstormer, with his kid-brother, Jimmy, as one of his crew members. Read More »
For Those I Loved AKA Au nom de tous les miens (1983) Robert Enrico, Michael York, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot
The true story of Martin Gray, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, from how he survived the German invasion Read More »
Sonny Boy (2011) Maria Peters, Ricky Koole, Sergio Hasselbaink, Angelo Arnhem
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. Read More »
Combat Squad (1953) Cy Roth, John Ireland, Lon McCallister, Hal March
A plotless shot-on-the-lot and sound-stage Korean War entry that is even below the standard Read More »
Son of Lassie (1945) S. Sylvan Simon, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart
Laddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 – has he inherited his mothers famous courage ? Read More »
The Day and the Hour AKA Le jour et l’heure (1963) René Clément, Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page
It’s the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. Read More »
Piagol (1955) Kang-cheon Lee, Kyeong-hie No, Ye-chun Lee, Jin Kyu Kim
A group of communist guerillas encounter jealousy and rivalry among themselves because of the presence Read More »
Dondi (1961) Albert Zugsmith, David Janssen, Patti Page, Walter Winchell
Six American GIs stationed in Italy befriend an orphaned boy Read More »
Names Engraved in Marble AKA Nimed marmortahvlil (2002) Elmo Nüganen, Priit Võigemast, Indrek Sammul, Hele Kõre
Two brothers choose the opposite sides in a civil war of a small country. Read More »
The Password Is Courage (1962) Andrew L. Stone, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch
A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans Read More »
Fan-Fan the Tulip AKA Fanfan la tulipe (1952) Christian-Jaque, Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand
Fanfan is a handsome young peasant. He joins the army to escape a forced marriage Read More »
The Night of the Generals (1967) Anatole Litvak, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
In 1942, in Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Read More »
I Accuse AKA J’accuse (1919) Abel Gance, Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife Read More »
The Haunted Airman (2006) Chris Durlacher, Julian Sands, Rachael Stirling, Robert Pattinson
In World War II, the airman Toby Jugg is hit in the spine during an airborne attack and he becomes paraplegic. Read More »