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Category Archives: War
BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott SCREENWRITER: Ken Nolan FILM STARS: Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, Sam Shepard, Kim Coates, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Piven, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. COUNTRY: USA THIS … Continue reading
WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Brian G. Hutton SCREENWRITER: Alistair Maclean FILM STARS: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern, Donald Houston, Peter Barkworth, William Squire, Robert Beatty, Ingrid Pitt, Brook Williams, Neil McCarthy, Vincent Ball, Anton Diffring, … Continue reading
THE COLDITZ STORY (1955)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Guy Hamilton SCREENWRITER: Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell FILM STARS: John Mills, Eric Portman , Frederick Valk, Denis Shaw, Lionel Jeffries, Christopher Rhodes, Richard Wattis, Ian Carmichael , Bryan Forbes, Theodore Bikel, Eugene Deckers, Anton Diffring, Guido … Continue reading
REACH FOR THE SKY (1956)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Lewis Gilbert SCREENWRITER: Lewis Gilbert, Vernon Harris (additional scenes) FILM STARS: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison, Michael Warre, Nigel Green, Eric Pohlmann, Michael Gough, Anton Diffring COUNTRY: Britain THIS … Continue reading
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDIATE (1962)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: John Frankenheimer SCREENWRITER: George Axelrod FILM STARS: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Henry Silva, Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, James Edwards, Douglas Henderson. Whit Bissell COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Richard Condon … Continue reading
THE ENEMY BELOW (1957)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Dick Powell SCREENWRITER: Wendell Mayes FILM STARS: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison, Russell Collins, Kurt Kreuger, Frank Albertson, Biff Elliot, Ralph Manza, Doug McClure, Darryl F. Zanuck COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: D.A. … Continue reading
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THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE (1968)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Andrew V. McLaglen SCREENWRITER: William Roberts FILM STARS: William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Jeremy Slate, Claude Akins, Jack Watson, Richard Jaeckel, Bill Fletcher, Richard Dawson, Tom Troupe, Luke Askew, Jean-Paul Vignon, Tom Stern, … Continue reading
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: David Lean SCREENWRITER: Carl Foreman. Michael Wilson FILM STARS: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Percy Herbert COUNTRY: Great Britain / USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Pierre Boulle TYPE: … Continue reading
THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Franklin J. Schaffner SCREENWRITER: Heywood Gould FILM STARS: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner, Anne Meara, Bruno Ganz, Michael Gough COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK … Continue reading
MASH (1970)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Robert Altman SCREENWRITER: Richard Hooker (H. Richard Hornberger and W. C. Heinz) FILM STARS: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, René Auberjonois, Jo Ann Pflug , John Schuck, Carl Gottlieb, … Continue reading
If you do any other posts featuring Colin Firth could you not do the Bridget Jones movies? The movie version…