#Movies #TheGunsOfNavarone

Via Neville F Chamberlain @NevilleFChambe1
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#GregoryPeck, #AnthonyQuinn, #StanleyBaker, #AnthonyQuayle, #JamesDarren, #DavidNiven

“THE GUNS OF NAVARONE” (1961) dir. J. Lee Thompson

66 years ago:
Hell Drivers (UK)
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
1957-07-23
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44940
#HellDrivers #CyEndfield #StanleyBaker #HerbertLom #PeggyCummins #ClassicMovies

74 years ago:
All Over the Town (UK)
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises mo...
1949-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/258094
#AllOvertheTown #CyrilCusack #BryanForbes #StanleyBaker #ClassicMovies

63 years ago:
Hell Is a City (UK)
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned ...
1960-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28784
#HellIsaCity #ValGuest #StanleyBaker #JohnCrawford #DonaldPleasence #Hammer #ClassicMovies

Earlier notable appearances also included British #FilmNoir crime drama #HellDrivers (1957) - starring #StanleyBaker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, with #SeanConnery and #SidJames.

70 years ago:
The Cruel Sea (UK)
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike...
1953-02-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16914
#TheCruelSea #JackHawkins #DenholmElliott #StanleyBaker #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

56 years ago:
Accident (UK)
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible c...
1967-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74544
#Accident #JosephLosey #DirkBogarde #StanleyBaker #JacquelineSassard #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

67 years ago:
Helen of Troy (IT,US)
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for m...
1956-01-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42658
#HelenofTroy #RobertWise #StanleyBaker #HarryAndrews #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

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The 1956 #War film🎥 “A Hill In Korea” directed by #JulianAmyes from a screenplay by Ian Dalrymple, Anthony Squire & Ronald Spencer

Based on #MaxCatto’s 1953 novel📖 (written as Simon Kent)

🌟#GeorgeBaker #HarryAndrews #StanleyBaker #MichaelCaine

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