The best Melville Cooper’s war movies

Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

15/10/1896- 31/03/1973
Today we present the best Melville Cooper’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 Melville Cooper’s movies.

The Dawn Patrol

The Dawn Patrol
7.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 24/12/1938
  • Character: Sergeant Watkins
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.

The Red Danube

The Red Danube
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 14/10/1949
  • Character: Private David Moonlight
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

Immortal Sergeant

Immortal Sergeant
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 29/04/1943
  • Character: Pilcher
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

13 Rue Madeleine

13 Rue Madeleine
6.9/10
  • Genre: ThrillerWar
  • Release: 15/01/1947
  • Character: Pappy Simpson
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.

This Above All

This Above All
6.6/10
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.

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