Civic Mythology in Cinema: a sequence from Gallipoli (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An academic piece. Amidst the visual and narrative sprawl of Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, the sequence in which the …
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Where Eagles Dare (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Where Eagles Dare, adapted by Alistair MacLean from his own novel and directed by Brian G. Hutton, looks a lot …
Leningrad (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A choppy, maddening, occasionally compelling feature culled from a Russian-made mini-series, featuring Hollywood actors Mira Sorvino and Gabriel Byrne, Leningrad …
Redacted (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Brian De Palma returns to his roots whilst simultaneously constructing one of the most angry, and far from subtle, films …
Rescue Dawn (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Werner Herzog’s welcome comeback to feature filmmaking is a rare and curious mix: both a success as a nail-biter escape …
The Naked and the Dead (1958) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
I should really hate Raoul Walsh’s adaptation of Norman Mailer’s great novel as much as my friend Marilyn Ferdinand hates …
Go for Broke! (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Robert Pirosh, who provided the pithy screenplay for William Wellman’s mighty Battleground (1949) and had an artful way of translating …
Command Decision (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .Command Decision could today be regarded as a companion piece, after a fashion, to the following year’s superior Twelve …
The Password Is Courage (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Predating, anticipating, and in some ways outdoing The Great Escape, for both detail and comic value extracted from the …
The Day Will Dawn (1942) and Secret Mission (1942) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast
. ..Director Harold French’s duet of derring-do both features the little-remembered but blatantly cool Hugh Williams; Williams, who made a …
