The best Leslie Banks’s war movies

Leslie Banks

Leslie Banks

09/06/1890- 21/04/1952
Today we present the best Leslie Banks’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Leslie Banks’s movies.

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room
7.1/10
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.

Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well?
7.5/10
  • Genre: ThrillerWar
  • Release: 07/12/1942
  • Character: Oliver Wilsford
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.

Fire Over England

Fire Over England
6.5/10
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

Ships with Wings

Ships with Wings
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/11/1941
  • Character: Vice Adm. David Wetherby
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930th style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.

The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/01/1942
  • Character: Taylor
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Sons of the Sea

Sons of the Sea
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 23/12/1939
  • Character: Capt. Hyde
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...

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