WWI Films: Flight Commander (aka The Dawn Patrol, 1930)
Overall this was incredibly similar to The Dawn Patrol (1938), which I did a post about last week. *There were a goodly number of recycled shots that the 1938 film took from this one (the climactic Blowing Things Up Scene…
WWI Films: The Dawn Patrol
Today I’m going to write about THE DAWN PATROL. Released in 1938, this is unquestionably a masterpiece of classic war movie. The entire cast is brilliant – Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, among others – and there…
WWI Films: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Today I’m here to talk about ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, a 1930 film starring Lew Ayres as Paul Baumer, the narrator of the book. When I first saw this, back in the early 2000s, I had JUST…
WWI Films: The Road to Glory
Today’s post is about the 1936 film THE ROAD TO GLORY! This is one that my mom wasn’t particularly fond of, so Fredric March or no Fredric March, we only watched it once. My memory of it was having…
WWI Films: THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK
Recently I’ve been re-visiting some classic films (mostly from the 1930s) set in WWI, and I thought I’d make some posts about them here, because it’s been super fascinating to me. I’ve also got a few on my to-watch list…