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Stories of soldiers, and military operations

The Men (1950)

December 30, 2020by Eric Binford 3 Comments

Synopsis: In a VA (Veteran Affairs) hospital, Ken (Marlon Brando, The Godfather), who is paralyzed from the waist down, struggles to accept his current reality. With the help of his fiancée […]

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1950

Bopha! (1993)

November 19, 2020by Eric Binford Leave a comment

Synopsis: Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon) is a policeman in apartheid-era South Africa who suffers a crisis of conscience after he finds out that his son, played by Maynard Eziashi (A […]

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1993

The Key (1958)

August 11, 2020by Eric Binford 12 Comments

Synopsis: William Holden (Sunset Boulevard) plays a WWII tugboat captain whose job consists of assisting gunned down ships. The job gradually starts affecting him. Reaction & Thoughts: “In this work, […]

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1958

The Boys in Company C (1978)

November 11, 2019by Eric Binford 16 Comments

Synopsis: In 1967, a group of young men are tying to get through the Marine Corps boot camp before being shipped out to Vietnam. Later, the soldiers realize that the […]

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1978

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

September 19, 2019by Eric Binford 14 Comments

Synopsis: On the eve of World War II, an American journalist, John Jones (Joel McCrea, Sullivan’s Travels), is sent to Europe to find out what are the chances of war […]

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1940

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

September 2, 2019by Eric Binford 13 Comments

Synopsis:  At the height of WWII, residents of a small Italian village try to hide their most precious commodity from the Nazis: wine. Reaction & Thoughts: The Secret of Santa […]

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1969

55 Days at Peking (1963)

December 24, 2018by Eric Binford 13 Comments

Synopsis: At the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi (Flora Robson, Saratoga Trunk) is persuaded to kick foreigners out of the country. The Empress orders the Boxers, a rouge group of […]

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1963

The End of the Affair (1955)

September 30, 2018by Eric Binford 7 Comments

Synopsis: In the 1940s, a writer, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson, A Guy Named Joe), begins a clandestine relationship with a married woman, Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr, The Innocents), whom he tries […]

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1955

Uncertain Glory (1944)

September 10, 2018by Eric Binford 3 Comments

Synopsis: After a resistance fighter kills a bunch of Nazis, Hitler’s forces threaten to kill 100 hostages if the saboteur doesn’t come forward. Luckily for the hostages, a convicted murderer, […]

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1944

John Paul Jones (1959)

July 30, 2018by Eric Binford 5 Comments

Synopsis: The life and times of John Paul Jones, played by actor Robert Stack (Written on the Wind and Airplaine!), the father of the United States Navy: from his humble […]

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1959

Secret Agent (1936)

May 22, 2018by Eric Binford 4 Comments

Synopsis: At the height of WWI, British officials send three spies (John Gielgud, Arthur, Madeline Carroll, The 39 Steps, and Peter Lorre, M) to assassinate an unidentified German spy, but […]

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1936

The Innocents (2016, aka Les Innocentes)

January 17, 2018by Eric Binford 1 Comment

Synopsis: In Poland right after World War II, a French physician (Lou de Laage, The Wait) discovers a Catholic convent filled with pregnant nuns. Reaction & Thoughts: Anti-war drama meets […]

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2016

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

November 20, 2017by Eric Binford 20 Comments

Synopsis: “The Minivers,” a middle-class English family, struggle to have a normal life during the difficult first years of World War II. “The Minivers” go through many ups and downs, […]

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1942

The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966)

May 2, 2017by Eric Binford 8 Comments

Synopsis: At the height of the Cold War era between the USSR and USA, a Russian submarine appears on the coast of a small New England town. Fearing for their […]

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1966

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