We follow the everyday travails of a group of WW2 French resistance fighters in Marseille, including their engineer leader and a middle-aged woman who sets up anti-German attacks without telling her husband or daughter, as they do battle against the occupying Nazis, collaborators and traitors in their own camp. This tense and atmospheric classic, based partly on Joseph Kessel's novel and partly on Melville's own experiences as a resistance fighter who later escaped France to join the Free French
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SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949)
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A group of American soldiers prepare for battle in the Pacific, under the gung-ho eye of John Wayne's battle hardened sergeant. The men have got their biggest test ahead on Iwo Jima where they have to inch their way up Mt Suribachi under constant Japanese fire. A classic piece of all guns blazing patriotism.
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