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Subgenre Sampler
Longest Day, The (1962)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum… - One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
McHale's Navy (TV Series) (1962-1965)- Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway
- Predating MASH, Borgnine and Flynn engage in naval nonsense in this fondly remembered maritime comedy of hierarchical hi–jinks and seaman…
War Lover, The (1962)- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field… - WW2 drama involving two Yankee pilots in England who form a deadly duo in the air, and two sides of a love triangle on the ground. Slow–moving,…
Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, David Niven - A great WW2 nail–biter in which Gregory Peck and David Niven lead the all–star macho cast as an elite squad assigned to destroy two giant…
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell… - Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
Mein Kampf (1961)- Dir. Erwin Leiser
- Based on the infamous diary of Adolf Hitler, this is an impressive, prudent chronicle of his life, from his formative years through the horrors of…
On the Double (1961)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White - Zany action–comedy set during the Invasion of Normandy, where an American soldier and talented mimic (Danny Kaye) impersonates a British high…
Sins of Rachel Cade, The (1961)- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore - A colonel falls in love with a Protestant medical missionary in the Belgian Congo during WWII, but an American injured pilot interrupts proceedings.
Light Up the Sky! (1960)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Benny Hill, Dick Emery… - Ian Carmichael leads an inept searchlight unit during in this bumbling and occasionally tragic wartime comedy. Larrikins Benny Hill and Tommy Steele…
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris… - A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma. Hinging on the treatment…
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