Tag Archives: Robert Ryan

War Movie Mondays: ‘Anzio!’

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick comes to us from the Italian front, a rigorous and often overlooked campaign of ETO during World War II. Robert Mitchum stars as a war correspondent (Dick Ennis) (loosely based on famed correspondent Ernie Pyle) in the … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Dirty Dozen’

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick goes behind the lines of World War II France with the 1967 release of Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen. The film stars the legendary Lee Marvin as Major John Reisman, an American OSS (pre C.I.A.) operative chosen … Continue reading →

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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: ‘Battle of the Bulge’

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Battle of the Bulge (1965) was an Anglo-American production directed by Ken Annakin (The Longest Day).  The film debuted at the Cinerama Dome Theater in Hollywood on December 16, 1965, which was the twenty first anniversary of when the … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Men In War’

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Director Anthony Mann helmed this somewhat forgotten Korean War film which pits a small platoon of American soldiers against unseen North Korean snipers and combatants as U.N. forces are pushed further back across the 38th Parallel in September, 1950. The … Continue reading →

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Western Wednesdays: ‘The Professionals’

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Elisabeth Rappe

When I grow up, I want to be Claudia Cardinale. There are plenty of beautiful women in movies, but few goddesses. Cardinale is a goddess. Even when she’s sunburned and running around in a rag, as she is in The … Continue reading →

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