Category Archives: War

War Movie Mondays: ‘Memphis Belle’

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is another salute to our WW II flyboys in Michael Caton-Jones’s Memphis Belle (1990).  The film stars Matthew Modine (Captain Dennis Dearborn, Pilot), Tate Donovan (1st Lt. Luke Sinclair, Co-Pilot), D.B. Sweeney, (Lt. Phil Lowenthal, Navigator), Billy … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ’12 O’Clock High’

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick salutes the valiant fliers of United States Army Air Corp in the 1949 release of director Henry King’s 12 O’Clock High. The film stars Gregory Peck (Brig. Gen. Frank Savage), Hugh Marlowe (Lt. Col. Ben Gately), Gary … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Ninth Configuration’

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1980 release of William Peter Blatty’s The Ninth Configuration which is a Gothic, thriller, comedic, war picture.  The film stars Stacy Keach (Col. Hudson Kane), Scott Wilson (Capt. Billy Cutshaw), Jason Miller (Lt. Frankie Reno), … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Platoon’

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Happy Memorial Day to all those currently serving in the U.S. armed forces, and to you vets of America’s foreign wars.  This week’s pick is Oliver Stone’s 1986 Academy Award winner for Best Picture Platoon, which depicts the horrors and … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Exterminator’

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1980 release of James Glickenhaus’s ‘The Exterminator‘ which takes us from the jungles of war torn Vietnam to the urban jungle of the crime stricken and bankrupt New York City of 1980. The Film stars … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Missing in Action’

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1984 release of director Joseph Zito’s Missing in Action which was the first installment of the franchise. Chuck Norris stars for the first time as Col. James Braddock, who years earlier escaped a POW camp … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Missing in Action 2: The Beginning’

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is yet another classic from the world of Golan Globus a.k.a. Cannon Films, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) which was directed by Lance Hool and stars Chuck “White Lightning” Norris as Colonel James Braddock in … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Hanoi Hilton’

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is from the wonderful world of Cannon Pictures with the 1987 feature The Hanoi Hilton. It was directed by Lionel Chetwynd and tells the story of downed American airmen who suffered greatly at the hands of their North … Continue reading →

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