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Introduction Green Dragon is a 2001 American drama film directed by Timothy Linh Bui and starring Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker and Duong Don. Outline The film follows the experience of Vietnamese refugees in the United States immediately following the Fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Tai Tran (Duong) has been appointed… Read More
Introduction The Glory Guys is a 1965 American film based on the novel The Dice of God by Hoffman Birney. Filmed by Levy-Gardner-Laven and released by United Artists, it stars Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, and Michael Anderson, Jr. The film’s screenplay was written by Sam Peckinpah long before the 1965 film… Read More
Introduction Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans is a 2019 British comedy film based on the best selling Horrible Histories stories by author Terry Deary and the 2009 and 2015 television series on CBBC. Outline Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but no muscle, is always coming up with schemes, but one of these… Read More
Introduction Flight of Fury is a 2007 American action film directed by Michael Keusch, and written by Joe Halpin and Steven Seagal, who also starred in the lead role. Outline Air Force pilot John Sands (Steven Seagal) has been wrongfully imprisoned in a military detention centre where his memory is to be chemically wiped out.… Read More
Introduction The Gun Runners is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Don Siegel. Outline Sam Martin (Audie Murphy) runs a charter boat with his alcoholic first mate Harvey (Everett Sloane). He is forced by financial necessity to run guns for the Cuban Revolution but his employer seeks to maximise his profit. Production… Read More
Introduction The War in Space, released in Japan as Great Planet War: The War in Space (惑星大戦争 The War in Space Wakusei Daisensō: Za uō in Supēsu”), is a tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1977. Outline In Autumn of the year 1988, contact with Space Station Terra is lost… Read More
Introduction They Came to Cordura is a 1959 American CinemaScope Eastmancolor Western film co-written and directed by Robert Rossen and starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. The film is based on a 1958 novel by Glendon Swarthout. Outline In 1916, as US Army soldiers chase after Pancho Villa, Army Major Thomas… Read More
Introduction The Lucky Ones is a 2008 American comedy-drama directed by Neil Burger. The screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn focuses on three United States Army soldiers who find themselves drawn together by unforeseen circumstances. Outline Having completed his latest tour of duty, middle-aged Staff Sergeant Fred Cheaver (Tim Robbins) has retired from military service… Read More
Introduction Of Love and Shadows, also known as De amor y de sombra, is a 1994 Chilean-Argentine-American drama film written and directed by Betty Kaplan and starring Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli and Patricio Contreras. It is based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Isabel Allende. Outline Irene is a magazine… Read More
Introduction Thank You for Your Service is a 2017 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Jason Hall, in his directorial debut, and based on the 2013 non-fiction book of the same name by David Finkel. Finkel, a Washington Post reporter, wrote about veterans of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment returning to… Read More
