Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Hidden Fortress (1958)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Anthony Quayle - After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
Men in War (1958)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Vic Morrow… - Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray play the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division over a…
China Gate (1957)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson - In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy…
Pride and the Passion, The (1957)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren… - A solemn epic set around Napoleon's campaign in Spain in the early 19th century – the cast doing their sincere best with a fairly passionless…
Throne of Blood (1957)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura - Kurosawa transposes MacBeth into a Samurai setting and the result justifies his reputation. Nothing short of an awesome spectacle Shakespeare himself…
D-Day - The Sixth of June (1956)- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Edmond O'Brien… - Well–executed enactment of the Normandy landings in WW2, with some extravagent action scenes and solid dramatics.
Battle Cry (1955)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Aldo Ray… - Entertaining WWII yarn concerning a squad of American marines romancing and training (in Paekakariki, New Zealand!) before heading off to action in…
Purple Plain, The (1954)- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee… - Strong psychological drama, shot in lush Technicolor, with Peck as a shell–shocked pilot stuck with wounded comrades behind enemy lines in the…
Malta Story (1953)- Dir. Brian Desmond Hurst
Feat. Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel - A taut wee adventure set among the special forces of the British Air Force defending the island of Malta during WW2. Real–life locations and a…
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