Introduction A young man reluctantly enters the Navy and becomes a diver to please his father. He finds himself in the most dangerous spy mission of the Cold War. Outline Based on a true story of a young man who reluctantly enters the navy and becomes a diver to please his father, but later finds… Read More
Introduction Soldiers Three is a 1951 American adventure film based upon an element of several short stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring the same trio of British soldiers, portrayed in the film by Stewart Granger, Robert Newton, and Cyril Cusack. Refer to Gunga Din (1939) and Sergeants 3 (1962). Outline London, 1918: In a gentlemen’s club,… Read More
Introduction Sergeants 3 is a 1962 American comedy/Western film directed by John Sturges and featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. The film is a remake of Gunga Din (1939), with the setting moved from India to the American West. Also known as Badlands (original script… Read More
Introduction Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about… Read More
Introduction Guns at Batasi is a 1964 British drama film starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton and Mia Farrow. The film is based on the 1962 novel The Siege of Battersea by Robert Holles and was directed by John Guillermin. Although the action is set in an overseas colonial military outpost during… Read More
Introduction Gracie! is a biopic television film on the life of Gracie Fields, with Jane Horrocks playing Fields and Tom Hollander her husband Monty Banks. It covers her career before the Second World War and the decline in her popularity during the war. Outline In 1939 Gracie Fields, the ‘Queen of Hearts’, is at the… Read More
Introduction Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American war comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with… Read More
Introduction Wild Geese II is a 1985 British action-thriller film directed by Peter Hunt, based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. The film is a sequel to the 1978 film The Wild Geese, which… Read More
Introduction The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger. A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator. Refer to The Wild Geese II (1985),… Read More
Introduction Commando Leopard (German: Kommando Leopard) is a 1985 war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins, Klaus Kinski, and Manfred Lehmann. It is the second of their three mercenary war films (including Codename Wild Geese and The Commander). Outline In an unnamed Latin American dictatorship, a group of rebel freedom fighters fight… Read More
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