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The Journey is a 1959 American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. A group of Westerners try to flee Hungary after the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . It has Ron Howard in his first credited acting role, Deborah Kerr , Yul Brynner , Jason Robards and Robert Morley .
A shaven head was often referred to as the "Yul Brynner look". [39] [40] [41] Brynner's second motion picture was the film version of The King and I (1956) with Deborah Kerr. It was a huge success critically and commercially. [42] Brynner as Ramesses II in The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Way Ahead (also known as Immortal Battalion) (1944) is a British Second World War drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov . The film stars David Niven , Stanley Holloway and William Hartnell along with an ensemble cast of other British actors, including Ustinov in one of his earliest roles.
A recording sung by Helen Forrest and sheet music were released by Paramount in 1945, both renamed in movie tie-ins, You Came Along (Out of Nowhere). Though Forrest sung the original lyrics in the film and on the record, the changed lyrics appeared in the sheet music and is "sung by an offscreen chorus over the final scene and end title. [ 12 ]
According to Kinematograph Weekly, 49th Parallel was the most popular film at the British box office in 1941. [15] [16] The Times attributed the success of the film to the enthusiasm of Odeon Cinemas founder Oscar Deutsch. [17] Variety estimated that the film earned $1.3 million in U.S. rentals in 1942. [18]
The film is a significant reworking of Rattigan's 1942 play Flare Path. Rattigan, then a Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant, was posted in 1943 to the RAF Film Production Unit to work on The Way to the Stars and Journey Together. [4] The title The Way to the Stars is often assumed to have been taken from the Latin motto of the RAF, Per ardua ad ...
Leon Crane (August 5, 1919 – March 26, 2002), a native of Philadelphia, [1] was an American Army Air Corps lieutenant who was stationed at Ladd Field [a] in Alaska during World War II.
The full film The Fighting Lady is a 1944 documentary film (billed as a "newsdrama") directed by Edward Steichen , produced by the U.S. Navy and narrated by Lt. Robert Taylor USNR. It is not to be confused with the 1954 war drama Men of the Fighting Lady , starring Van Johnson .