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Subgenre Sampler
Desert Fox, The (1951)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke… - James Mason gives a definitive performance as Nazi General Rommel (which he repeated for THE DESERT RATS), whose troubles proved overwhelming despite…
Outcast of the Islands (1951)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley… - Sturdy British adventure melodrama from the director of THE THIRD MAN and FALLEN IDOL based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel. A riveting Trevor Howard…
Red Badge of Courage, The (1951)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audie Murphy, Royal Dano, Arthur Hunnicutt - A classic film version of the classic American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane, which depicts the line between courage and cowardice in the Yankee…
Sirocco (1951)- Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Zero Mostel… - Standard–issue thriller, with Bogie playing a gun–runner who tangles with the Syrian authorities, French occupiers and an underground…
Bitter Springs (1950)- Dir. Ralph Smart
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder - Racially dubious Australian bush western about a 20th century settler (Chips Rafferty) trying to make a living off land shared by an Aboriginal tribe.
Flame and the Arrow, The (1950)- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Nick Cravat - Middling, though colourful medieval epic with Lancaster leading as a 'Robin Hood' who leads the peasants of Lombardy into a revolt against the local…
Halls of Montezuma (1950)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden… - Unflashy and well–cast war film, that follows the US Marines into action on a Pacific island. Makes a fairly gung–ho contrast to dir.…
Kim (Rudyard Kipling's Kim) (1950)- Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas… - Adventure based on the classic Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name, set during the British Raj in India, where the orphan of a British soldier…
Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) (1950)- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough - A British submarine patrolling in the period just after WWII, hits a leftover mine and plunges seriously damaged to the sea–bed. The captain…
Battleground (1949)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban… - A tough depiction of WW2 combat set among an American squad during the gruelling Battle of the Bulge, that stands as something of an early classic.…
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