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Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
Seven Thunders
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Les sept tonnerres, The Beast of Marselilles
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04 Sep 1957
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Da mesma forma que, para o descontamento de vários, eu resenho e dou nota baixa para filme que nem termino de ver, desta vez vou dar cotação alta para um filme baseado exclusivamente na visão dos seus primeiros 25 minutos, absolutamente eletrizantes. Vou sair para almoçar agora; vamos ver se na volta, após eu terminar de vê-lo, a cotação permanece a mesma ou se aumento ela. Com certeza absoluta não tem como ser diminuída.
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"We must especially remember from this journey Seven Thunders, located in Marseille in 1943. Its perfect construction, sensitive both in the interweaving of multiple characters and events, in the cohabitation of extremely varied tones and in an astonishing symbiosis between the collective history and individual destinies, in fact a model of cinematographic narration that could be offered as a subject of analysis and study to film schools around the world."
- Jacques Lourcelles
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022: Film #31
In the good old days, people had the decency to offer you a cognac before murdering you.
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The voice of God in judgement - quite a highfaluting title for something that plays it almost nameless and secular throughout.
Far be it from me to suggest restructuring a film, let alone something 65-years old and near forgotten, but I will… This would nearly have been a very good film - rather than a decent one - by containing almost everything in the tenement block, and by muting the central romance.
As it is the subsidiary characters and situations carry nuance and tang which the mooning of Boyd and Gaylor does not. That might ‘sell’ a poster but it’s the least interesting thing when you have a murderous doctor, a grieving mother/compromised father, a helpful brothel keeper and an…
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MoMA - 35mm
2 British POWs escape the prison camps and find temporary refuge in a German controlled poverty stricken section of Marseille. Here they come in contact with a slew of locals including but not limited to young lady who catches the eye of one of our heros, a sadistic serial killer, a middle man for safe passage out of France and his family and more. Really well done in connecting characters and stories though 1 finishes with a sort of cop out explosion nevertheless Fregonese wraps it all up nicely mixing blue screen, camera effects and newsreel footage in the climax.
Really enjoyed this.
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A film of vertical escapes and horizontal breakthroughs. Everything can be glanced at one way or the other until you're down in the invisible cellar of death. Everything is connected one way or the other until the Nazis blow our world up to pieces.
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Hugo Fregonese’s war drama in which escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France. Starring Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice and Tony Wright.
The story concerns a gang of escaped inmates of war who have second judgments about the actual causes of a doctor who assisted them scheme their getaway.
Stephen Boyd and Tony Wright both give good performances in their respective roles as Dave and Jim, the two prisoners-of-war who begin to have different opinions on whether they should have allowed the doctor to participate in helping them, while James Robertson Justice is respectable as Martout, the doctor who is not a likeable character.
Elsewhere, there are fine performances to be had from Kathleen Harrison and…
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I recently came across this film while researching a list of WWII POW movies and was surprised that I had never heard of it. First of all because I love that particular sub-genre and secondly because it starred James Robertson Justice, of whom I am a great fan.
And lo and behold the film pops up on tv. It's funny how these things work out.
Having watched it I realise now that one of the reasons I had never previously come across it is that it is not strictly speaking a POW movie. While it does indeed feature two British soldiers they have already made their escape and are hiding out in France.
So it's off that list now, but…