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Subgenre Sampler
Light Up the Sky! (1960)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Benny Hill, Dick Emery… - Ian Carmichael leads an inept searchlight unit during in this bumbling and occasionally tragic wartime comedy. Larrikins Benny Hill and Tommy Steele…
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…
Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price… - Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)- Dir. Grigori Chukhrai
Feat. Vladimir Ivashov - Soviet poetic realism brings a contemplative tone to the theatre of war, following a soldier’s pilgrimage back home after being granted leave for…
Danger Within (1959)- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Richard Attenborough - In an Italian POW camp in WW2, 400 plan to escape but one plans to betray. Can you spot the traitor? Richard Attenborough leads the cast of suspects.
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada - Romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect rekindles their traumatic wartime experiences. The twin threads of despair and sensual love…
Human Condition, The (No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, A Soldier's Prayer) (1959-1961)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratana - An epic Japanese film trilogy following the life of a well–intentioned yet naïve pacifist and socialist as he tries to survive in the…
Operation Amsterdam (1959)- Dir. Michael McCarthy
Feat. Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton - Gripping wartime drama tracking two gem specialists attempting to remove a valuable horde of diamonds from Amsterdam in 14 hours before the nasty…
Operation Petticoat (1959)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis - Submarine Capt. Cary Grant and First Mate Tony Curtis excel in this seaborne comedy.
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