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The Mysterious Doctor (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Cheap, brief, daft, and blissful fun for old B-movie spelunkers, The Mysterious Doctor is jerry-built pulp fiction from the...

Where Eagles Dare (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Where Eagles Dare, adapted by Alistair MacLean from his own novel and directed by Brian G. Hutton, looks a...

Leningrad (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A choppy, maddening, occasionally compelling feature culled from a Russian-made mini-series, featuring Hollywood actors Mira Sorvino and Gabriel Byrne,...

The Naked and the Dead (1958) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I should really hate Raoul Walsh’s adaptation of Norman Mailer’s great novel as much as my friend Marilyn Ferdinand...

Go for Broke! (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Robert Pirosh, who provided the pithy screenplay for William Wellman’s mighty Battleground (1949) and had an artful way of...

Command Decision (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

..Command Decision could today be regarded as a companion piece, after a fashion, to the following year’s superior Twelve...

The Password Is Courage (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.Predating, anticipating, and in some ways outdoing The Great Escape, for both detail and comic value extracted from the...

The Day Will Dawn (1942) and Secret Mission (1942) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast

. ..Director Harold French’s duet of derring-do both features the little-remembered but blatantly cool Hugh Williams; Williams, who made...