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Classic Film Review: James Mason makes his mark in Britain’s “Casablanca” — “Candlelight in Algeria” (1943)
Hollywood won the race to get a drama about the Allied invasion of North Africa into theaters largely due to luck. Warner Brothers bought the rights to an unproduced play written in 1940 that just happened to be set in … Continue reading
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Tagged algiers, british-history, casablanca, james-mason, photography, politics, world-war-ii
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Classic Film Review: Serious and Seldom Seen Sellers — “The Blockhouse” (1973)
Filmed on the whim of a liquor empire heir, a “true story” whose German Army WWII victims were changed to French and citizens of other occupied countries, “The Blockhouse” is one of the strangest titles in the later, quixotic career … Continue reading
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Tagged aznavour, bronfman, classic-film-review, comedy, film, guernsey, movies, peter-sellers, review, Reviews, world-war-ii
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Classic Film Review: Reckless Pilot Peck makes a WWII Trek across “The Purple Plain” (1954)
By the time he made “The Purple Plain,” Gregory Peck had already made a film that touched on the fear and emotional toll of air combat in World War II — 1949’s “Twelve O’Clock High.” But the text of that … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film, combat-film, gregory-peck, movie-review, ptsd, sri-lanka, world-war-ii
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Netflixable? The Postwar Poor in Italy ship their kids North on “The Children’s Train”
World War II put lots of children, all over the world, in mortal danger. Those families that could often put them on trains to escape it. From the Kindertransport of Jewish children from Nazi controlled corners of Europe to the … Continue reading
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