Here’s a film I had no idea about. For most of the films on my list, and the few new ones I’m discovering along the way, I have a fair idea what the basic premise of the film is. Is it a trench film? Aviation? Submarine? Gallipoli? Eastern Front? But for this one I had […]
Read more "Stamboul Quest (1934)"As I’ve said before, there are certain films on my list that are not out and out Great War Films. They may not have one single frame of war stuff in them but for some reason or another they count as Great War Films, at least in my head anyway. My film today is one […]
Read more "The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)"If there’s one battle, front, theatre of war or campaign in the Great War that I feel more affinity to than any other it’s The Somme. My Great Grandfather, Edward Henry Evennett died on the 10th of July 1916 near Pozieres. The account of the movements of his battalion (13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade) on the […]
Read more "The Trench (1999)"I don’t expect I’ll be reviewing too many Serbian Great War Films so I didn’t know what to expect with this one. It could’ve fallen anywhere on the spectrum between dreadful and genius and if I’m honest I wasn’t really expecting it to score at the genius end of the scale. ‘March on the Drina’ […]
Read more "March on the Drina (1964)"Time for a quick blast back to the silent era for my next film. ‘Hotel Imperial’ (1927) is the first Hollywood filmic transfer of a stage play (also called ‘Hotel Imperial’) which was written in Austro-Hungary while the war was still raging in 1917. I say ‘First’ and ‘Hollywood’ because there’s a lost Hungarian version […]
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