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The Elusive Corporal
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sThe story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
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Ballad of a Hussar
The 1800sA young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
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The Pigeon That Took Rome
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sHe is a military-type pigeon, now a sitting duck. โ An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
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On the Double
๐ฉ๐ช GermanyYou'll double up laughing when you see Mr. Fun On The Run! โ American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
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The Fascist
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to "Federale". They travel by a sidecar trough the disastrous Italy, near to the final collapse, under bombings and in agony. Nevertheless the bad situation, they manage to build up a kind of friendship. Primo, even if the signals of final destruction are near, doesn't lose his trust in the regime. The end is near.
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The Best of Enemies
๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 1940sOne of the great comedies of all time! โ During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sYou'll crack your timbers when you see how the Navy sticks the Army sad sacks with the crumbiest ship afloat! โ Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" โ a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives โ if only they can get there in one piece.
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Light Up the Sky!
The 1940sLewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.
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The Great War
The 1910sItaly, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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Babette Goes to War
๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sBrigitte Bardot is a Comedienne Now! โ Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
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The Cow and I
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sIn 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
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The Devil's Disciple
New Hampshire The 18th CenturyOne Devil of a Motion Picture! โ In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940sThe movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
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Operation Bullshine
England The 1940sFall in for Laughs โ During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
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Without Trumpet or Drum
๐ซ๐ท France The 1870sSummer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Lรฉon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
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Me and the Colonel
๐ซ๐ท FranceHere's Fun! Danny Panics the Wehrmacht in his own brand of war! โ Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Jacobowsky, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers
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Kiss Them for Me
CaliforniaThey tried so hard ... so very hard ... not to fall in love ! โ Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
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Mister Roberts
The 1940sAll The Uproarious Fun Of the Smash Broadway Play! โ Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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A 'Soir' Full of Joy
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1940sBased on a true story from November 1943 : the Resistance manages to publish a fake edition of the pro-German newspaper 'Le Soir', put on sale by surprise in the newsstands and stuffed full of parodic articles pouring ridicule upon occupying forces. The film faithfully traced the course of this humorous and enterprising attempt to wake up the populace, filling out the basic plot with irreverent patriotic gags.
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Take the High Ground!
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1950sSgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
๐ซ๐ท France The 18th CenturyFanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.
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What Price Glory
The 1910sThe New "What Price Glory" โ Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
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Mr. Walkie Talkie
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1950sYOU'LL SOUND-OFF WITH LAUGHS WHEN YOU MEET... โ Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
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Soldiers Three
England ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1910s The 1880s The 1890sRough, Tough and Riotous! โ Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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Up Front
The 1940sWillie and Joe are on the screen! โ Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
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Francis
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sA Talking Mule....the funniest film surprise in 5 years! โ The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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I Was a Male War Bride
๐ฉ๐ช Germany...and this is how SHERIDAN TOOK GRANT! โ Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.
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A Southern Yankee
๐บ๐ธ United States of America The 1860sHE'S A SPY FOR BOTH SIDES! โ Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
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To Live in Peace
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sVivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.
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Uncivil War Birds
๐บ๐ธ United States of America The 1860sCivil war breaks out between the states, but the Stooges dont know which side their state will be on. Moe and Larry join the Union, Curly the Confderates. Last appearance of Stooge supporting actor John Tyrrell. โ The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
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Rendezvous with Annie
The 1940sKeep Quiet!...Don't let this wise old stork bend your ear, brother! But once Annie's secret is out...you'll howl with delight! โ A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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Anchors Aweigh
CaliforniaON WAVES OF SONG, LAUGHTER AND ROMANCE ! TWO LOVE-LOST SAILORS ON A FOUR-DAY LEAVE OF FUN AND FRIVOLITY ! โ Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with Josรฉ Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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To Have and Have Not
The 1940sTALK ABOUT T.N.T! THIS is IT! โ A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Johnny Frenchman
๐ซ๐ท FranceThe fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
๐ซ๐ท FranceYes, it's the howling sequel to "See Here, Private Hargrove" โ An Army corporal and his con-man sidekick take a shortcut to heroism in World War II France.
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Follow the Boys
CaliforniaThe SONG-STUDDED STAR-STUNNING SAGA of America's show-world at war! โ During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
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Two Thousand Women
๐ซ๐ท FranceInnocent Girls at the Mercy of their Nazi Overlords! โ Downed English airmen hide out with women in a Nazi concentration camp in France.
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Bell-Bottom George
EnglandHe's all at sea! โ George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.
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See Here, Private Hargrove
North CarolinaThe Laughs of a Nation! โ Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.
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In the Meantime, Darling
The 1940sA gay and tender story of G.I. love! โ A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.
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Passport to Destiny
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940sOnly the Nazis don't think it's so funny! โ A British war widow travels to Berlin to assassinate Hitler.
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Margin for Error
New YorkThere's NO Rationing of Entertainment in... โ Margin for Error is a 1943 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Samuel Fuller is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Clare Boothe Luce.
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Stage Door Canteen
New YorkA young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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This Is the Army
Hawaii The 1940s The 1910sIt's your own army - in the army's own show! โ In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancรฉe until the war is over.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sAs a Secret Wife...She Doesn't Do Bad! โ A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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Salute to the Marines
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesRough! Romantic! Rarin' to go! โ It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
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