Subgenre Sampler
Burmese Harp, The (Biruma no tategoto) (1956)
- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni - Another muted anti–war elegy conceived during Japan’s post–WWII recovery, this tells the journey of a Japanese private, who upon…
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.
Kanal (1956)- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar - The darkest chapter of dir. Wadja's WWII 'Trilogy', is an unremitting portrayal of the last gasps of the 1944 Warsaw uprising. With desperate…
Man Who Never Was, The (1956)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng… - Riveting adaptation of Ewen Montagu's book about the true story of a British Navy commander's involvement in a tricky scheme to fool the Nazis, by…
Private's Progress (1956)- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas… - Popular Ealing war satire finds Ian Carmichael, as the film’s spotty college freshman, conscripted to military service where he’s whipped into…
Reach for the Sky (1956)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More - British WW2 favourite tells the courageous true story of pilot Douglas Bader who overcame the amputation of both legs to miraculously continue his…
Above Us the Waves (1955)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Donald Sinden, John Gregson… - Robust submarine yarn from WW2 concerns the efforts of Commander John Mills and his men to sink the deadly German battle–ship 'Tirpitz' with…
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…
Cockleshell Heroes (1955)- Dir. Jose Ferrer
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley… - Fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, a British canoe–borne raid on Bordeaux Harbour during WWII.
Colditz Story, The (1955)- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes - A compulsive and tightly wound prison yarn, set around the supposedly unescapable German POW camp. Britisher John Mills unites prisoners of various…
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