Tag Archives: Richard Burton

War Movie Mondays: ‘The Longest Day’

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

In celebration of the Normandy D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, this week’s review is the 1962 “Grandaddy of all war movies” The Longest Day. Legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck and directors Ken Annakin (British scenes), Andrew Marton (American scenes), Bernhard … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Where Eagles Dare’

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

1986’s Where Eagles Dare is a World War II spy/action film which is based on Alistair MacLean’s novel about a group of allied commandos who must break into an impregnable German fortress in the Bavarian Alps and rescue an American … Continue reading →

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