This weekend in honor of Memorial Day, Turner Classic Movies is showing war movies. I am providing the schedule for you along with a star rating (on a scale of 1-5) from Brassey's Guide to War Films and the IMDB summary for the films that are not famous. Some of the movies are very obscure and there are several that I have not seen yet. It just goes to show, you can watch over 800 war movies for your blog, but there will still be war movies that you have not seen yet. Don't get me wrong, I am not planning to watch any obscure 1 star movies this weekend. The movie I recommend the most is "Westfront 1918" which just so happens to be celebrating its 90th anniversary on Saturday. (You'd think TCM would be aware of that, but it is showing it on Monday. All the times are Eastern.
06:00 a.m. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) *** Newlyweds Gil (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
08:00 a.m. Captain Caution (1940) ** When her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
10:00 p.m. Waterloo Bridge (1940) *** During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.
12:00 a.m. Cornered (1946) N/A Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
02:00 a.m. Uncertain Glory (1944) ** After a career criminal (Errol Flynn) is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Nazis.
03:45 a.m. Edge of Darkness (1943) ** After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis. (another Flynn movie)
Sunday, May 24
06:00 a.m. Reunion in France (1942) * In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman (Joan Crawford) hides a downed RAF pilot (John Wayne) and tries to smuggle him into Portugal despite the strict surveillance by the suspicious Gestapo officers.
08:00 a.m. Assignment in Brittany (1943) * A French captain (Jean-Pierre Aumont) poses as a Nazi to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast of France, while assuming the identity of a "look-a-like" French citizen.
02:30 p.m. The Wings of Eagles (1957) N/A A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead (John Wayne).
08:00 p.m. Hell to Eternity (1960) ** When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano (Jeffery Hunter) enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.
10:15 p.m. Pride of the Marines (1945) *** Marine hero Al Schmid (John Garfield) is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
03:00 a.m. Westfront 1918 (1930) ***** A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Monday, May 25
11:00 p.m. Till the End of Time (1946) N/A Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
03:30 a.m. Homecoming (1948) * At the end of WW2, aboard a repatriation ship, an Army doctor reminisces about his war years while being interviewed by a reporter. Clark Gable & Lana Turner
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