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Category Archives: War

Men Must Fight (1933)
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April 17, 2016 by smumcounty

Political movies are not a real genre these days. In our politically divided environment, studios can’t risk alienating large swaths …
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Category: 1930s, Pre-Code, War | Tags: Diana Wynward, Lewis Stone, May Robson, Men Must Fight, Phillips Holmes
Battleground (1949)
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April 14, 2014 by smumcounty

“This story is about, and dedicated to, those Americans who met General Heinrich von Luttwitz and his 47 Panzer Corps …
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Category: 1940s, Action, Drama, War | Tags: Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge, Battleground (1949), Bruce Cowling, Don Taylor, Douglas Fowley, General McAuliffe, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Jerome Courtland, John D. Dunning, John Hodiak, Leon Ames, Marshall Thompson, MGM, Nuts, Paul C. Vogel, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Pirosh, Van Johnson, William A. Wellman, World War II
Hangmen Also Die (1943)
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July 13, 2013 by smumcounty

“Hangmen Also Die” begins with a meeting of the Nazi occupiers of Czechoslovakia welcoming their leader Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich …
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Category: 1940s, Action, Drama, War | Tags: Alexander Granach, Anna Lee, Anti-Nazi Propaganda, Brian Donlevy, Gene Lockhart, Hangmen Also Die, Twardowski, Walter Brennan