Posts Tagged ‘colonel’

007 GoldenEye (1995)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Bean, Sean | Scorupco, Izabella | Janssen, Famke | Baker, Joe Don | Dench, Judi | John, Gottfried | Coltrane, Robbie | Cumming, Alan | Karyo, Tchéky | Llewelyn, Desmond | Bond, Samantha | Kitchen, Michael | Gordon, Serena | Kunz, Simon
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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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.

1941 (1979)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Candy, John | Oates, Warren | Lee, Christopher | Toshiro Mifune | Robert Stack | Allen, Nancy | Williams, Treat | John Belushi | Beatty, Ned | Fuller, Samuel
Directors:
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Norman, Zack | Arau, Alfonso | Ojeda, Manuel | Taylor, Holland | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Smith, Eve | Nesnow, Joe | Chávez, José | Muñoz 'Chachita', Evita | García, Camillo | Puebla, Rodrigo | Morayta, Paco
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

First Blood (1982)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Crenna, Richard | Dennehy, Brian | McKinney, Bill | Starrett, Jack | Talbott, Michael | Mulkey, Chris | McLiam, John | Humphreys, Alf | Caruso, David | Crowley, David L. | MacKay, Don | Tamburro, Charles A. | Petersen, David | Huston, Craig
Directors: Kotcheff, Ted
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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: Caine, Michael | Robertson, Cliff | Bannen, Ian | Andrews, Harry | Fraser, Ronald | Elliott, Denholm | Percival, Lance | Herbert, Percy | Jordan, Patrick | Kydd, Sam | Beckley, William | Horsey, Martin | Jason, Harvey | Knight, Don | Newman, Roger
Directors: Aldrich, Robert
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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.

General’s Daughter, The (1999)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Stowe, Madeleine | Cromwell, James | Hutton, Timothy | Stefanson, Leslie | von Bargen, Daniel | Williams III, Clarence | Woods, James | Weireter, Peter | Boone Junior, Mark | Beasley, John | Boyd Kestner | Beyer, Brad | Hickey, John Benjamin | Dial, Rick
Directors: West, Simon
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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)

Friday, February 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Broderick, Matthew | Washington, Denzel | Elwes, Cary | Freeman, Morgan | Kennedy, Jihmi | Braugher, Andre | Finn, John | Leitch, Donovan | Cullum, JD | North, Alan | Gunton, Bob | De Young, Cliff | Baskous, Christian | Lee, RonReaco | Sanders, Jay O.
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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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: Eastwood, Clint | Savalas, Telly | Rickles, Don | O'Connor, Carroll | Sutherland, Donald | MacLeod, Gavin | Buckley, Hal | Margolin, Stuart | Morris, Jeff | Davalos, Richard | Lopez, Perry | Troupe, Tom | Stanton, Harry Dean | Balduzzi, Dick | Collins, Gene
Directors: Hutton, Brian G.
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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: Stallone, Sylvester | Crenna, Richard | de Jonge, Marc | Smith, Kurtwood | Focás, Spiros | Gabai, Sasson | Shoua, Doudi | Raney, Randy | Gilbert, Marcus | Abutbul, Alon | Assadollahi, Mahmoud | Shiloach, Joseph | Diamond, Harold | Seri, Matti | El Deen, Hany Said
Directors: MacDonald, Peter
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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.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Hartnett, Josh | Beckinsale, Kate | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Voight, Jon | Baldwin, Alec | Sizemore, Tom | Scott, William Lee | Zola, Greg | Bremner, Ewen | King, Jaime | Kellner, Catherine | Garner, Jennifer | Rue, Sara | Shannon, Michael
Directors: Bay, Michael
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.