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Subgenre Sampler
Train, The (1964)- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau… - Burt Lancaster leads the French Resistance in stopping (or at least diverting) a train used by the Nazis to steal precious French art treasures in…
633 Squadron (1963)- Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Cliff Robertson, James Clavell - WWII airmen Cliff Robertson and co maintain their staunchly British reserve as they prepare to bomb a Nazi rocket factory in Norway. Slow but with…
Donovan's Reef (1963)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden… - One of dir. Ford’s more comically inclined efforts with ex–Navy buddies John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden raising hell on the remote…
300 Spartans, The (1962)- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker - Richard Egan leads the hardened best of Sparta into the famous battle at Thermapayle between the Greek and Persian empires in in the 5th century…
Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle - Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
Hell Is For Heroes (1962)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker… - An expertly written and delivered WWII adventure, where a small squad of US soldiers, headed by Steve McQueen, must hold off an advancing German…
Ivan's Childhood (1962)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov - A teenage spy works behind enemy lines in WW2 Germany. The Russian master's first feature is his least self–conscious and most efficient…
Longest Day, The (1962)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum… - One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, David Niven - A great WW2 nail–biter in which Gregory Peck and David Niven lead the all–star macho cast as an elite squad assigned to destroy two giant…
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell… - Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
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