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Subgenre Sampler
Sink the Bismarck (1960)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith… - A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck. Conveying both the allied…
Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price… - Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)- Dir. Grigori Chukhrai
Feat. Vladimir Ivashov - Soviet poetic realism brings a contemplative tone to the theatre of war, following a soldier’s pilgrimage back home after being granted leave for…
Danger Within (1959)- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Richard Attenborough - In an Italian POW camp in WW2, 400 plan to escape but one plans to betray. Can you spot the traitor? Richard Attenborough leads the cast of suspects.
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada - Romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect rekindles their traumatic wartime experiences. The twin threads of despair and sensual love…
Human Condition, The (No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, A Soldier's Prayer) (1959-1961)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratana - An epic Japanese film trilogy following the life of a well–intentioned yet naïve pacifist and socialist as he tries to survive in the…
Operation Amsterdam (1959)- Dir. Michael McCarthy
Feat. Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton - Gripping wartime drama tracking two gem specialists attempting to remove a valuable horde of diamonds from Amsterdam in 14 hours before the nasty…
Operation Petticoat (1959)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis - Submarine Capt. Cary Grant and First Mate Tony Curtis excel in this seaborne comedy.
Pork Chop Hill (1959)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn… - Given a gritty believability by Dir. Milestone ('All Quiet on the Western Front'), this recounts the bloody, meaningless conquest of a lowly hill…
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. John Gavin, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore… - Bittersweet WWII melodrama finds Douglas Sirk at his gravest; John Gavin plays a returning German solider who falls in love under the shadow of war.…
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