Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957)
- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev - A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Enemy Below, The (1957)- Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Theodore Bikel… - Naval thriller with Mitchum as a U.S. destroyer captain caught in a cat–and–mouse battle with German U–boat commander Jurgens he…
Farewell to Arms, A (1957)- Dir. Charles Vidor, John Huston
Feat. Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica… - Expensive, though wooden adaptation of the Hemingway classic set around a love story on the Italian Front in WWI. Despite a Ben Hecht script, the…
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr - Kerr and Mitchum play a nun and Marine sergeant respectively, who are stranded on a desert island during WWII – the island happens to also be…
Hellcats of the Navy (1957)- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz… - WW2 submarine actioner that is chiefly remembered as the only film to star both Ronald Reagan and his future wife Nancy Davis. Storywise this…
Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley - Conventional WW2 flick focused on a group of Resistance fighters in German occupied Crete who hatch a plan to kidnap the head of the German army.…
Kiss Them For Me (1957)- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson… - Very very silly war comedy with Grant and his navy buddies fighting for their right to spend their shore leave as they see fit, which inevitably…
One That Got Away, The (Einer Kam Durch) (1957)- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Terence Alexander… - Sturdy war thriller centred on the true story of German airman Franz von Werra – the only German POW to successfully escape from allied custody…
Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou… - Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…
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…
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