Cinemateca » War http://www.cinemateca.info Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:01:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Niemandsland — Hell on Earth (1931) http://www.cinemateca.info/niemandsland-hell-on-earth-1931/ http://www.cinemateca.info/niemandsland-hell-on-earth-1931/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:01:50 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=1021 No Mans LandNo_Mans_Land_002220

The film takes place in a WWI trench, where five diverse individuals have been unwillingly thrust together.
Despising one another at first, the five protagonists come to realize that they must learn to get along if they hope to survive. The pacifistic sentiments (not to mention the ethnic mix) of Niemansland would be verboten by the Nazi regime within a few years after its original 1931 release; indeed, all copies of this film were ordered to be destroyed by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

War

Ernst Busch … Ernst Kohler
Vladimir Sokoloff … Lewin (as Waldemar Sokoloff)
Renée Stobrawa … Frau Kohler
Elisabeth Lennartz … Lewin’s Bride
Hugh Douglas … Charles Brown (as Hugh Stephens Douglas)
Louis Douglas … Joe Smile
Zoe Frank … Mrs. Brown
Georges Péclet … Charles Durand (as George Piclet)
Rose-Mai … Frenchman’s Sweetheart
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/niemandsland-hell-on-earth-1931/feed/ 0 The First of the Few (1942) http://www.cinemateca.info/the-first-of-the-few-1942/ http://www.cinemateca.info/the-first-of-the-few-1942/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:27:30 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=6903 MoviePowderPresentsTheFirstOfTheFew_002460By the late 1920′s aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to design a completely new type of fighter plane and that sooner or later Britain’s very survival may depend on what he comes to call the Spitfire.

Action | Biography | Drama | History | War

Leslie Howard … R.J. Mitchell
David Niven … Geoffrey Crisp
Rosamund John … Diana Mitchell
Roland Culver … Commander Bride
Anne Firth … Miss Harper
David Horne … Mr. Higgins
J.H. Roberts … Sir Robert McLean
Derrick De Marney … Squadron Leader Jefferson
Rosalyn Boulter … Mabel Lovesay
Herbert Cameron … MacPherson
Toni Edgar-Bruce … Lady Houston (as Toni Edgar Bruce)
Gordon McLeod … Major Buchan
George Skillan … Mr. Royce
Erik Freund … Messerschmitt
Fritz Wendhausen … Von Straben (as F.R. Wendhausen)
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/the-first-of-the-few-1942/feed/ 0 We Dive at Dawn (1943) http://www.cinemateca.info/we-dive-at-dawn-1943/ http://www.cinemateca.info/we-dive-at-dawn-1943/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:20:09 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=5275 We_Dive_at_Dawn_000120The crew of HMS submarine Sea Tiger have their leave (and assorted family problems) cut short when they are recalled for a special mission: sink the new German battleship Brandenburg. En route, they learn that their target has entered the heavily defended Baltic; rather than fail, they follow it. Tension builds as they approach their target. After the attempt, escape seems impossible…unless they can refuel in enemy waters.

Action | Drama | War

John Mills … Captain – Lt. Taylor, R.N.
Louis Bradfield … First Officer – Lt. Brace, R.N.R.
Ronald Millar … Third Officer – Lt. Johnson, RNVR
Jack Watling … Navigating Officer – Lt. Gordon, R.N.
Reginald Purdell … Coxwain – C / P.O. Dabbs
Caven Watson … Chief Engine Room Artificer – C / P.O. Duncan
Niall MacGinnis … Torpedo Gunner’s Mate – C / P.O. Mike Corrigan
Eric Portman … On Hydrophones – L / S. Hobson
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/we-dive-at-dawn-1943/feed/ 0 Texas to Bataan (1942) http://www.cinemateca.info/texas-to-bataan-1942/ http://www.cinemateca.info/texas-to-bataan-1942/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:00:53 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=4874 texas_to_bataan_001020In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram’s “Range Buster” series, Texas ranch owner Conroy (Steve Clark) returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines. The Range Busters, Dusty (John King), Davy (David Sharpe) and Alibi (Max Terhune), are selected to take the horses there but, before leaving, they capture three spies who are trying to steal the horses and also learn that the ranch cook, Cookie (Escolastico Baucin), is a Japanese spy, but he manages to escape. In the Philippines, they go to a cafe for dinner and see Cookie and Miller, a German spy. Eavesdropping, they learn that Ken Richards (Frank Ellis), a neighboring Texas rancher, is the Axis contact back in the states. They capture Cookie and break up the spy ring in the Phillipines, and then return to Texas intent on settling matters with Richards. They do so and are honored by the U.S. Government just as the radio blares forth the December 7, 1941 announcement of the Pearl Harbor bombing. They head for the nearest enlistment station.

Western | War

John ‘Dusty’ King … Dusty King
David Sharpe … Davy Sharpe
Max Terhune … Alibi Terhune (as Max ‘Alibi’ Terhune)
Elmer … Elmer Sneezeweed – Alibi’s Dummy
Marjorie Manners … Dallas Conroy
Steve Clark … Tom Conroy
Budd Buster … Tad Kelton
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Thriller | War

Richard Arlen … Lewis J. ‘Lee’ Deerhold
Wendy Barrie … Ann Patterson
Nils Asther … Dr. Arthur Huneker
Roger Pryor … G.B. Fleming
Abner Biberman … Commander Toyo
Marc Lawrence … Vincent Bela
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/submarine-alert-1943/feed/ 0 Robot Pilot (1941) http://www.cinemateca.info/robot-pilot-1941/ http://www.cinemateca.info/robot-pilot-1941/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:06:09 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=4603 RobotPilot_003840Because of a back-log of war orders, the Lambert Airplane factory is unable to try-out the robot-controlled plane developed by test pilot Jerry Barton and weather bureau observer, “Doc” Williams. The pair lie in wait for factory owner George B. Lambert while he is playing golf with his spoiled débutant daughter, Betty, and send up their radio-controlled model where Lambert cannot fail to notice it. But Jerry sets the model down in a pool of water and douses Betty. Lambert authorizes Jerry and Doc to test their remote-controlled robot pilot on one of his planes for the Army. Jerry flies the plane up, bails out and Doc is to land the plane using his remote control box. But foreign agents, wishing to hamper the development of the robot pilot, have tampered with the controls, and Doc is unable to pull the plane out of a spin, and it crashes. Lambert fires Jerry and he and Doc return to the remote weather outpost to do more work on their invention. Betty, on her way to Hollywood to be a movie star, is driving across the desert with her Aunt Maude and runs out of gas,and Betty borrows some gas belonging to the U.S. government, and is caught by Jerry. He decides to place her under arrest, pending the arrival, in a week’s time, of the U.S. Marshal. Jerry makes Betty and Aunt Maude do housework and chores. The spies steal a plane, crash in the desert, show up and make some trouble, and try to get away in a car in which Betty and Aunt Maude are hiding in the trunk.

Action | Drama | Romance | War

Forrest Tucker … Jerry Barton
Carol Hughes … Betty Lambert
Evelyn Brent … Maude Lambert
Emmett Vogan … ‘Doc’ Williams
William Halligan … George B. Lambert
George Sherwood … Jones
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Comedy | Music | Romance | War

The Andrews Sisters … Patty, Maxene, LaVerne
Dick Foran … Lon Prentice
Joe E. Lewis … Lancelot Pringle McBiff
Ernest Truex … Col. Elias Weatherford
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/private-buckaroo-1942/feed/ 0 Charlie Chaplin’s “Shoulder Arms” (1918) http://www.cinemateca.info/shoulder-arms-1918/ http://www.cinemateca.info/shoulder-arms-1918/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:27:47 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=2705 Shoulder_Arms_002340Charlie is in boot camp in the “awkward squad.” Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes “over the top” and captures thirteen Germans (“I surrounded them”), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then … fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.

Comedy | War

Charles Chaplin … Recruit
Edna Purviance … French girl
Syd Chaplin … Sergeant / The Kaiser (as Sydney Chaplin)
Jack Wilson … German Crown Prince
Henry Bergman … Fat German sergeant / Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Albert Austin … U.S. soldier / German soldier / Kaiser’s chauffeur
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/shoulder-arms-1918/feed/ 0 ‘Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942) http://www.cinemateca.info/neath-brooklyn-bridge-1942/ http://www.cinemateca.info/neath-brooklyn-bridge-1942/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:38:55 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=4238 neath_brooklyn_bridge_001140The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.

Comedy | Drama | Romance | War

Leo Gorcey … Muggs McGinnis
Bobby Jordan … Danny Lyons
Huntz Hall … Glimpy
Gabriel Dell … Skid
Noah Beery Jr. … Butch
]]> http://www.cinemateca.info/neath-brooklyn-bridge-1942/feed/ 0 Navy Way, The (1944) http://www.cinemateca.info/navy-way-the-1944/ http://www.cinemateca.info/navy-way-the-1944/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:23:08 +0000 admin2 http://www.bacauexpres.ro/cinema/?p=4230 navy_way_003480The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.

Drama | War

Robert Lowery … Johnny Zumano aka Johnny Jersey
Jean Parker … Ellen Sayre
William Henry … Malcolm Randall (as Bill Henry)
Roscoe Karns … Frankie Gimble
Sharon Douglas … Trudy
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