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Subgenre Sampler

 
SiroccoSirocco (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 SpringsBitter 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, TheFlame 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 MontezumaHalls 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.…
KimKim (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 DepartureMorning 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…
BattlegroundBattleground (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.…
Omoo Omoo The Shark GodOmoo Omoo The Shark God (1949)
Dir. Leon Leonard
Feat. Ron Randell, Trevor Bardette, Devera Burton
Sea–faring B–movie cheapie takes liberty with the Herman Melville story of a ship captain who falls under a shaman's curse after pinching…
Sands of Iwo JimaSands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. John Wayne
Popular WWII saga with John Wayne as a tough Sarg, spurring his troops on in the Pacific.
We Were StrangersWe Were Strangers (1949)
Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz
Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…

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