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June 4, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

R 113 min - Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller - 9 November 1984

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George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Director:  Michael Radford

Stars:  John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker, Andrew Wilde, David Cann, Peter Frye, Roger Lloyd Pack, David Trevena, Anthony Benson, Phyllis Logan, Garry Cooper, Rupert Baderman, Corinna Seddon, Martha Parsey, Merelina Kendall, P.J. Nicholas, Lynne Radford, Pip Donaghy, Shirley Stelfox, Janet Key, Hugh Walters, John Hughes, Robert Putt, Christine Hargreaves, Matthew Scurfield

March 14, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

The Longest Day (1962)

— 178 min - War, Action, Drama - 25 September 1962

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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Director:  Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton

Writers:  David Pursall, Jack Seddon, James Jones, Romain Gary

Stars:  Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Beymer, Hans Chris...

March 5, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

Zulu (1964)

— 138 min - Action, Drama, History, War - 22 January 1964

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In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

Director:  Cy Endfield

Writers:  Cy Endfield, John Prebble

Stars:  Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Paul Daneman, Patrick Magee, Glynn Edwards, Neil McCarthy, David Kernan, Gary Bond, Richard Burton, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Kerry Jordan, Dennis Folbigge, Gert Van den Bergh, Harvey Hall, John Sullivan, Joe Powell, Larry Taylor, Dic...