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Subgenre Sampler
Quiet American, The (1958)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Audie Murphy - This early screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s cautionary novel was the first major film to address to thorny issue of Vietnam, although loses…
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster - One of the best WWII submarine movies, this pits Commander Clark Gable against rebel Lt. Burt Lancaster as together they patrol the deeps.
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958)- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig… - Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
Young Lions, The (1958)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin… - Sensitive, well–mounted WW2 epic charts the effect of war on young lives from both sides. Marlon Brando as a confused German commandant…
Bitter Victory (1957)- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman… - Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins - Another rousing, grand scale production from director Lean, about a group of British POW's employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, while their…
China Gate (1957)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson - In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy…
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…
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…
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