Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Tobruk (1966)- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell… - This WW2 desert actioner is about the activities of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), who ran commando raids against Rommel and his Afrika…
Secret Invasion, The (1964)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney… - Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
Thin Red Line, The (1964)- Dir. Andrew Marton
Feat. Keir Dullea, Jack Warden - First version of James Jones' war–novel (later redone by Terrence Malick), chronicles the US invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII in grim B&W,…
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…
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.
Kings Go Forth (1958)- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood - Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis are comrades in arms who fight over Natalie Wood, but her mixed heritage arouses their bigotry instead.
Long Gray Line, The (1955)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp - Engrossing true life tale of military instructors Marty Maher and his rise to the top of his profession.
- 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.
Sands 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.
Captive Heart (1946)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister… - An exciting story of POWs in WWII Germany. Michael Redgrave gives an acclaimed performance as a Czech prisoner masquerading as a British officer.
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