Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tôge) (1966)
- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai - Based on a long–running Japanese newspaper serial, this stars Tatsuya Nakadai as an evil wandering samurai in feudal Japan who sees himself as…
Tobruk (1966)- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell… - This WW2 desert actioner is about the activities of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), who ran commando raids against Rommel and his Afrika…
Triple Cross (1966)- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard… - Minor curio concerns the real–life adventures of English safe–cracker Eddie Chapman (Plummer) who was in prison on Jersey when the Nazis…
Battle of the Bulge (1965)- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan… - Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…
Cast a Giant Shadow (1965)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson… - Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch… - One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
Hallelujah Trail, The (1965)- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence… - Unusual western adventure about a wagon train of whisky that becomes the target of the US cavalry, the Temperance League and local Indians. Overlong…
Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson… - Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
In Harm's Way (1965)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal… - Epic and stately treatment of the aftermath of Japan's WW2 attack on Pearl Harbour, with Wayne playing a sidelined Admiral who tries to claw back…
Major Dundee (1965)- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton… - Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
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