The best Ian Carmichael’s war movies

Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael

18/06/1920- 05/02/2010
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ian Carmichael’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 Ian Carmichael.

Betrayed

Betrayed
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 07/09/1954
  • Character: Capt. Jackie Lawson
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an American colonel who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/01/1955
  • Character: Robin Cartwright
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Private's Progress

Private's Progress
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 17/02/1956
  • Character: Pte. Stanley Windrush
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

Light Up the Sky!

Light Up the Sky!
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomanceWar
  • Release: 05/07/1960
  • Character: Lt. Ogleby (as Lt. Ian Carmichael)
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.

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