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The Cross of Lorraine (12-Nov-1943)

Director: Tay Garnett

Writers: Robert Aisner; Robert D. Andrews; Lilo Dammert; Alexander Esway; Michael Kanin; Ring Lardner, Jr.

From novel: A Thousand Shall Fall by Hans Habe

Keywords: Drama, WWII

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Jean-Pierre Aumont
Actor
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Joseph Calleia
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Hume Cronyn
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Wallace Ford
Actor
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Cedric Hardwicke
Actor
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Gene Kelly
Actor
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Jack Lambert
Actor
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Peter Lorre
Actor
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REVIEWS

Review by Alex Costa (posted on 22-Dec-2007)

Indeed we know this was a propaganda movie (we were in 1943) but the less careful choice of actors (Gene Kelly is great but with that american accent he would not certainly be a french soldier, Peter Lorre plays a somewhat ridiculous german sub-officer and Cedric Hawdrick playing the priest give the bad conotation of a movie about French POWs ....and basically only one the actors is French) and uncertain direction and production does not pay of. A pity. As a plot, more dramatic and even more cruel than other POW movies (Great Escape, etc) but misses the action, sequence and ingredients we would expect. Conclusion: a movie to keep in our collection of war movies as a souvenir.


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