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March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

Mar24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

March 10th, 2013: Grave of the Fireflies

Mar10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Animation, Anime, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged bombing, homefront, horrors of war, Japan, Studio Ghibli, World War Two

February 5th, 2013: Tight Little Island aka Whiskey Galore

Feb5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Comedy, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, War Movies Tagged alcoholic, Britain, comedic alcoholic, Ealing Studios, Home Guard, Scotland, shipwrecks, whiskey, World War Two

January 25th, 2013: Battleground (1949)

Jan25 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Black and White, Campaign History, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged 101st Airborne, Battle of the Bulge, Best Cinematography, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, German Army, James Arness, James Whitmore, MGM, Nazis, Ricardo Montalban, snow, U.S. Army, Van Johnson, William A. Wellman, winter, World War Two

November 8th, 2012: Sahara (1943)

Nov8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, War Movies Tagged "a picture of my gal", "never say die...oops", "what I'll do when the war is over", Africa, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Columbia Pictures, desert, double cross, Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, last stand, Lloyd Bridges, Nazis, oasis, Rex Ingram Dan Duryea, Sahara, tank, World War Two

June 24th, 2012: The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)

Jun24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Drama, Adaptation, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Epic, Based on a Book, Special Operations, Suicide Mission, P.O.W. Tagged World War Two, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Best Film Editing, Britain, Columbia Pictures, Jack Hawkins, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score, William Holden, Best Actor, Alec Guinness, David Lean, Andre Morell, POW, POW camp, Sessue Hayakawka, Pierre Boulle

May 28th, 2012: Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

May28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Air Operations, Based on a Book, Black and White, Campaign History, Drama, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged 20th Century Fox, B-17, Best Actor Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, bombers, Darryl F. Zanuck, Dean Jagger, Gary Merrill, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, stock footage, U.S. Army Air Force, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

OSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

May10 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Comedy, Espionage, Fish-Out-of-Water, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Satire, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Canal+, CineCinema, double cross, Egypt, France, Gaumont, Jean Dujardin, M6 Films, Mandarin Films, Michel Hazanavicius, musical interlude, Nazis, OSS117, princess, Soviets, Suez Canal, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

May 8th, 2012: The Big Red One (1980)

May8 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Campaign History, Movie of the Day, Period Film, War Movies Tagged amphibious landing, children of famous people, concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, D-Day, Gene Corman, hard ass seargant, Israel, Lee Marvin, Lorimar Films, Mark Hamill, Nazis, Normandy, North Africa, Palm D'Or Nomination, Perry Lang, Robert Carradine, Samuel Fuller, Sicily, The Big Red One, U.S. Army, Vichy, World War Two

March 24th, 2012: The Great Escape (1963)

Mar24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

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