Posts Tagged ‘colonel’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | Omar Sharif | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin
Directors: David Lean
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

The Last Castle (2001)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Gandolfini | Delroy Lindo | Robert Redford | Mark Ruffalo | Steve Burton | Clifton Collins
Directors: Rod Lurie
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When three star General Irwin is transferred to a maximum security military prison, its warden, Colonel Winter, can’t hide his admiration towards the highly decorated and experienced soldier. Irwin has been stripped of his rank for disobedience in a mission, but not of fame. Colonel Winter, who runs the prison with an iron fist, deeply admires the General, but works with completely different methods in order to keep up discipline. After a short while, Irwin can feel Winter’s unjust treatment of the inmates. He decides to teach Winter a lesson by taking over command of the facility and thus depriving him of his smug attitude. When Winter decides to participate in what he still thinks of as a game, it may already be too late to win.

Die Another Day (2002)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Halle Berry | Toby Stephens | Rosamund Pike | Rick Yune | Judi Dench | John Cleese | Michael Madsen | Will Yun Lee | Kenneth Tsang | Emilio Echevarría | Mikhail Gorevoy | Lawrence Makoare | Colin Salmon | Samantha Bond
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. 14 months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao (Yune) who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves (Stephens). Another MI6 agent known as Miranda Frost (Pike) is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American agent, known as Jinx (Berry). Whilst Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?

007 GoldenEye (1995)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Sean Bean | Izabella Scorupco | Famke Janssen | Joe Don Baker | Judi Dench | Gottfried John | Robbie Coltrane | Alan Cumming | Tchéky Karyo | Desmond Llewelyn | Samantha Bond | Michael Kitchen | Serena Gordon | Simon Kunz
Directors: Martin Campbell
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James Bond has a mission to recover the ‘Goldeneye’ access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite.

First Blood (1982)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Richard Crenna | Brian Dennehy | Bill McKinney | Jack Starrett | Michael Talbott | Chris Mulkey | John McLiam | Alf Humphreys | David Caruso | David L. Crowley | Don MacKay | Charles A. Tamburro | David Petersen | Craig Huston
Directors: Ted Kotcheff
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John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman Rambo’s old commander appears to shed light on the situation.

Too Late the Hero (1970)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Cliff Robertson | Ian Bannen | Harry Andrews | Ronald Fraser | Denholm Elliott | Lance Percival | Percy Herbert | Patrick Jordan | Sam Kydd | William Beckley | Martin Horsey | Harvey Jason | Don Knight | Roger Newman
Directors: Robert Aldrich
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A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don’t go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the ‘heros’ are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

The General’s Daughter (1999)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: John Travolta | Madeleine Stowe | James Cromwell | Timothy Hutton | Leslie Stefanson | Daniel von Bargen | Clarence Williams III | James Woods | Peter Weireter | Mark Boone Junior | John Beasley | Boyd Kestner | Brad Beyer | John Benjamin Hickey | Rick Dial
Directors: Simon West
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Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists when they discover the victim’s secret life, her past and a disturbing determination by senior staff to keep this investigation short and quiet.

Glory (1989)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | War
Countries: USA | Yugoslavia
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Telly Savalas | Don Rickles | Carroll O'Connor | Donald Sutherland | Gavin MacLeod | Hal Buckley | Stuart Margolin | Jeff Morris | Richard Davalos | Perry Lopez | Tom Troupe | Harry Dean Stanton | Dick Balduzzi | Gene Collins
Directors: Brian G. Hutton
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During World War II, Lieutenant Kelly learns of a German bank located behind enemy lines containing 16 million dollars in gold bars. His platoon, led by Big Joe, has three days of R&R coming, so, with the aid of hustler Crapgame, anachronistic hippie Oddball, three Sherman tanks and a touch of irreverence, Kelly leads his men deep into French territory to steal the gold for themselves.

Rambo III (1988)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Richard Crenna | Marc de Jonge | Kurtwood Smith | Spiros Focás | Sasson Gabai | Doudi Shoua | Randy Raney | Marcus Gilbert | Alon Abutbul | Mahmoud Assadollahi | Joseph Shiloach | Harold Diamond | Matti Seri | Hany Said El Deen
Directors: Peter MacDonald
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John Rambo’s former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman’s request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen.