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Lewis Milestone
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Lewis Milestone - what members say
review by ChesterDent from London, England
Go ahead and hit me. 30 March 2007
review by from St. Austell
Still one of the best 10 February 2008
Lewis Milestone - filmography
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Mutiny On The Bounty
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Richard Harris, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Lewis Milestone replaced Carol Reed as director on this third version of Nordhoff and Hall's classic true account of naval rebellion. The film stars Marlon Brando as the spirited Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the tyrannical Captain Bligh. Their ship, the Bounty, leaves Portsmouth in 1787, ..read more »
 
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from 319 members
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Ocean's 11
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Patrice Wymore, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford
Director: Lewis Milestone
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This caper comedy, perhaps the most uncharacteristic film of director Lewis Milestone's career, stars Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean. He pulls together a collection of ten old war buddies to pull a heist of five casinos on the same night. Not surprisingly, the characters happen to be members of the ..read more »
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from 4,172 members
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Pork Chop Hill
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, George Peppard
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean police action. While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a 135-man ..read more »
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from 522 members
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They Who Dare
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Lewis Milestone
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A British WWII feature in which a group of soldiers take on a daring mission in the Aegean. Directed by ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT's Lewis Milestone, it stars Dirk Bogarde and Denholm Elliott as British soldiers sent on a grim mission on the island of Rhodes.
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from 541 members
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The Halls Of Montezuma
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Robert Wagner
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Once again returning to the genre to which he was perhaps best-suited, director Lewis Milestone traces the fate of a Marine platoon during WWII. The film stars Richard Widmark as the no-nonsense Lt. Carl Anderson, an officer charged with the responibility of leading his unit on a scouting mission ..read more »
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from 509 members
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Arch Of Triumph
(1948)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton
Director: Lewis Milestone
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A love story set in Paris where Dr Ravic is a refugee and Joan Madou a young woman whom he rescued from a suicide attempt. He is unable to return her love as the Nazi war machine is threatening the city and he could be deported...
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from 1 member
Due for release on 25th June 2012
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(1946)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Elizabeth Scott
Director: Lewis Milestone
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STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS: Barbara Stanwyck is the eponymous character of this classic noir, a woman of wealth and position in her small community, and the wife of local district attorney, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), a self-loathing alcoholic whom she holds in contempt. When her old friend Sam ..read more »
63%
from 336 members
Currently unavailable
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A Walk In The Sun
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Director: Lewis Milestone
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The setting is WWII Italy, with Dana Andrews starring as Sgt. Tyne, one of the officers leading a platoon in an attempt to take a farmhouse in the Italian countryside, which is now a German stronghold. As the troops prepare to attack, they contemplate the lives that have led them to this place and ..read more »
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from 120 members
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The Purple Heart
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger
Director: Lewis Milestone
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One of Hollywood's most striking films of World War II has very little war in it, yet it whips up a fearsome power. A U.S. bomber that took part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo crash-lands in Japanese-occupied China afterward. Captured, the officers and crew are hauled before a Japanese court and ..read more »
47%
from 39 members
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Rain
on DVD
(1932)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan
Director: Lewis Milestone
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The story of a preacher who finds himself drawn to a prostitute during a sailing trip in the South Seas. The boat becomes stranded on the island of Pago Pago and this gives the preacher an opportunity to try to save her soul...
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from 120 members
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Two Arabian Knights
(1927)
Starring: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim
Director: Lewis Milestone
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In WWI, two US soldiers - a Private and a Sergeant - are captured on the Western Front and, in the process of escaping the POW camp, leave their previous animosity behind. Escape is the only the beginning of the pair's breakneck adventures, however, which will involve near constant peril and a ..read more »
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from 5 members
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Lewis Milestone facts
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...erverse picture, thick with guilt, paranoia and fear and skillfully directed by Lewis Milestone, A steamy, noirish thriller which satisifies right until the end. ...
