The best David Lodge’s war movies

David Lodge

David Lodge

19/08/1921- 18/10/2003
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best David Lodge’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about David Lodge.

No Time To Die

No Time To Die
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/04/1958
  • Character: Patterson
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
7.7/10
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicWar
  • Release: 10/03/1969
  • Character: Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.

I Was Monty's Double

I Was Monty's Double
6.9/10
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes
6.5/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 16/11/1955
  • Character: Marine Ruddock
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

Yesterday's Enemy

Yesterday's Enemy
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/09/1959
  • Character: Perkins
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted

Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi
7.1/10
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

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