March 27th, 2012: The Producers (1968)
Down on his luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and timid accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) concoct a scheme to rip off their investors by creating a sure-fire flop...but of course...
View ArticleMay 8th, 2012: The Big Red One (1980)
The members of an infantry squad in the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division ("The Big Red One") fight their way through the war, from North Africa to Sicily to D-Day, Belgium, France and finally to a...
View ArticleOSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin), codename OSS117, is a French secret agent who, as we see in the opening sequence, has been fighting the enemies of France since the Second World War. In...
View ArticleMay 30th 2012: Notorious (1946)
Intelligence operative Devlin (Cary Grant) grooms Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the disgraced daughter of a German American convicted of treason, as a spy on Nazis operating out of Rio De Janeiro.
View ArticleJune 18th, 2012: Up! (1976)
Someone murders Adolf Schwartz (Edward Schaaf) who bears an uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler by dropping a piranha in his bathtub. Margo Winchester (Raven De La Croix) is sent to investigate the...
View ArticleNovember 8th, 2012: Sahara (1943)
A rag tag group of soldiers defends a dry oasis in the desert from the Nazis in hopes of buying their retreating comrades time.
View ArticleNovember 21st, 2012: The Order of the Black Eagle
Secret agent Duncan Jax (Ian Hunter) infiltrates a South American Nazi organization with the help of his trusty tank driving baboon Boon in this 10th rate James Bond rip-off.
View ArticleJanuary 25th, 2013: Battleground (1949)
Cast and Crew: William A. Wellman (Director); Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore, James Arness What It’s About: A squad of infantry from the 101st Airborne must survive being trapped in...
View ArticleMarch 20th, 2013: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Detective Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) takes a case from Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward), a beautiful dame who wants to know what really happened to her father, whose death she doesn't believe was an...
View ArticleMarch 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)
Cast and Crew: Elmer Bernstein (Score); Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, David McCallum, Nigel Stock What It’s About: During the...
View ArticleAugust 1st, 2013: The Train (1964)
Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is a member of the French resistance who is asked to stop Nazi officer Col. von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) from taking a train load of French paintings back to Germany. Initially...
View ArticleAugust 9th, 2013: Attack aka Attack! (1956)
During the closing days of the Second World War, a National Guard infantry company is ordered to move into a town that could be occupied by Nazi forces. Earlier in the day their cowardly, politically...
View ArticleSeptember 26th, 2013: A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Operation Market Garden, a huge airborne/ground operation in World War Two devised by General Montgomery. It was one of those grand strategic strokes that seem to exist merely to fail. Three airborne...
View ArticleOctober 19th, 2013: Shock Waves (1977)
Cast and Crew: Ken Wiederhorn (Director); John Kent Harrison, Ken Pare, and Ken Wiederhorn (Writers); Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, Fred Buch, John Carradine What It’s About: A small boat crashes into a...
View ArticleDecember 13th, 2013: 1941
A Japanese crew manning a German sub with a German naval attaché (Christopher Lee) are cruising Southern California attempting to bomb Hollywood. At the same time, various Angelenos get caught up in...
View ArticleDecember 21st, 2013: Patton (1970)
Controversial American General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) tumultuous career in the Second World War is the basis for this myth making film.
View ArticleJanuary 24th, 2014: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) once again adventures into mystery when his father Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), a medievalist who specialized in the legend of the Holy Grail, goes missing in Europe.
View ArticleFebruary 7th, 2014: The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) gets wind of a plot of Nazi expatriates. Can he unravel the true nature of the plot-and stop it-before it is too late?
View ArticleMarch 12, 2014: Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Cast and Crew: Brian G. Hutton (Director), Ron Goodwin (Music); Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Derren Nesbitt What It’s About: Richard Burton takes a rare and improbable turn...
View ArticleApril 27th, 2014: Into the White (2013)
During the fight over Norway, British and German air crews must cooperate to survive the elements after shooting one another down over icy wastes.
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