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Subgenre Sampler
Patton (1970)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates… - George C. Scott is unnervingly convincing as the real life WW2 General with whose military convictions were indeed unnerving. Co–written by…
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Jason Robards Jr.… - Elaborate account of events that led to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, told from both American and Japanese veiwpoints. Explosive finale.
Waterloo (1970)- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles - Napoleonic epic from the Russian director of WAR AND PEACE is dramatically woolly, but includes superb, sprawling battle–scenes. Rod Steiger…
Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres, aka Army in the Shadows) (1969)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel… - Melville’s heavyweight masterpiece – by turns sombre, exhilarating, and tension–filled – tackles the clandestine rearguard…
Castle Keep (1969)- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont… - Anachronistic WWII film in which a ragtag squad of GI's, led by an eye–patched Burt Lancaster, hunker down in a medieval castle and try to halt…
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves… - Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
Probability Zero (1969)- Dir. Maurizio Lucidi
Feat. Henry Silva 
Secret of Santa Vittoria, The (1969)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Hardy Kruger… - Bombastic war comedy with Quinn as a wine sodden local buffoon who through a number of contrivances becomes town mayor. When the townsfolk learn of a…
Virgin Soldiers, The (1969)- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport… - Comdey–drama following a squad of naive young British soldiers in 1950's Singapore who fall for the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
Where Eagles Dare (1969)- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure… - Exciting adaptation of Alistair MacLean's WW2 novel concerning British paratroopers rescue mission from an impregnable castle.
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