Subgenre Sampler
Bedford Incident, The (1965)- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier - Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
Cast a Giant Shadow (1965)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson… - Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
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…
Hill, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear - Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) (1965-1966)- Feat. Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner…
- Cheeky American WW2 series centred around a motley bunch of Yankee prisoners and their haphazard endeavours to disturb the Nazi war effort and make…
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…
King Rat (1965)- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. George Segal, James Fox, Tom Courtenay… - Star–studded adaption of James Clavell's novel, set in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. At the darker end of the genre, with 'hero' George…
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…
Once Before I Die (1965)- Dir. John Derek
Feat. John Derek, Ursula Andress, Richard Jaeckel… - Fairly substandard drama with a good premise set in the Philippines in 1941, where a column of Americans retreats before the advancing Japanese.…
Von Ryan's Express (1965)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra plays an unpopular US Colonel who leads a train–bound escape from an Italian POW camp. Tension mounts to a smashing finale.
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