Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Cruel Sea, The (1952)
- Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. Denholm Elliott - Bracing account of life aboard a British Corvette during WWII fighting German U–Boats and Atlantic storms, featuring a young Denholm Elliot…
Forbidden Games (Jeux Interdits) (1952)
- Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie - After her parents are killed in an air raid during WWII, a small girl makes friends with a peasant boy, and the pair gradually come to terms with the…
Hangman's Knot (1952)- Dir. Roy Huggins
Feat. Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jr. Jarman… - Handsome technicolour western with Randolph Scott leading a band of Confederate soldiers who are unaware that the war is over, and attack a wagon of…
Invasion U.S.A. (1952)- Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy - A crudely devised, but fascinating slice of early Cold War paranoia, this has the 'Land of the Free' being invaded by hordes of Russians, with…
Mutiny (1952)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Mark Stevens - Adventure movie set during the War of 1812, where a captain collecting a war loan of gold finds that his crew have plotted a mutiny to try to obtain…
Stalag 17 (1952)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger… - Sophisticated WW2 film in which comedy and suspense make uneasy but fascinating bedfellows. William Holden leads imprisoned American G.Is who plan…
What Price Glory? (1952)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet - Soldiers James Cagney and Dan Dailey take time out from the trenches of WWI for some zesty romantic rivalry over local attraction Corrinne Calvet.
Appointment with Venus (1951)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. David Niven, Glynis Johns, Kenneth More - Bizarre war drama based on a true story about a small recently occupied British isle with a very important prize cow living on it that the War Office…
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…
Fixed Bayonets (1951)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea - Brassy Korean War flick with a diminished platoon struggling for survival, and Basehart as the soldier terrified of having leadership thrust upon…
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