Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson… - Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
In Harm's Way (1965)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal… - Epic and stately treatment of the aftermath of Japan's WW2 attack on Pearl Harbour, with Wayne playing a sidelined Admiral who tries to claw back…
Morituri (1965)- Dir. Bernhard Wicki
Feat. Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard… - Unusual WW2 adventure features Brando as an anti–Nazi German who tries to persuade a German freighter plying the Pacific to defect to the…
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)- Dir. Henri Verneuil
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Geret… - The decimation of French and English troops who retreated to the coastal settlement of Dunkirk in 1940 is the sobering subject of this otherwise…
Great Escape, The (1963)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough… - McQueen heads a star–studded international cast in this superb drama based on a true account of an escape from a German POW camp by a group of…
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…
War Lover, The (1962)- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field… - WW2 drama involving two Yankee pilots in England who form a deadly duo in the air, and two sides of a love triangle on the ground. Slow–moving,…
On the Double (1961)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White - Zany action–comedy set during the Invasion of Normandy, where an American soldier and talented mimic (Danny Kaye) impersonates a British high…
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris… - A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma. Hinging on the treatment…
Sink the Bismarck (1960)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith… - A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck. Conveying both the allied…
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