Where Eagles Dare: The Nazi Nest

Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Photo: MGM Whoever wrote director Brian G. Hutton's Wikipedia entry listed Kelly's Heroes (1970) as his most notable work, which seems odd. That movie has…

Notorious: Spy Games

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…

Force 10 From Navarone 

After the mission that destroyed the guns of Navarone, Keith Mallory and John Miller (Robert Shaw, Edward Fox) are asked to find a spy who may have infiltrated the Yugoslav…

Das Boot: Under Pressure

Photo: Bavaria Film On my last visit to New York City, I visited the Intrepid Museum and boarded USS Growler, the 1950s-era cruise missile submarine that is part of the…

Captain America: The First Avenger 

In 1942, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a skinny kid who keeps getting rejected for military service, is finally recruited for a special project that will turn him into a supersoldier.…

Saving Private Ryan: Spielberg in Combat

Tom Sizemore and Tom Hanks. Photo: DreamWorks Steven Spielberg directed several masterpieces over the years, but this one might be the most controversial. The general sentiment expressed by snobs is…

The King’s Speech: Royal Pains

Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Photo: The Weinstein Company After watching this brilliant drama, I knew I had to consult YouTube for the speech King George VI made after Britain's…

The Dresser: Theatre of War

Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney. Photo: Columbia I went to see the musical “Sugar” last week. I should go to shows like that more often. Apart from enjoying it, I…

Max Manus: Man of War 

Shortly after the German occupation of Norway in 1940, Max Manus (Aksel Hennie) and his friends join the organized resistance and become a thorn in the side of the Nazis.…