The Long Gray Line (1955), The Sea Chase (1955), Ten Gentlemen From West Point (1942), West Point of the Air (1935), Flirtation Walk (1934) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best West Point, N.y. movies.
Storyline: The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.—Dennis Huffman<dhuffman11@kc.rr.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, mentor, immigrant, soldier, dwight d. eisenhower, endearing, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: sea captain, german, nazi, british officer, commander, suspenseful, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: If anyone is looking for a real history of the Military Academy at West Point Ten Gentlemen From West Point will not be what you are looking for. It should be remembered that we were just going to war in 1942 and this film and a film for the would be enlisted men and junior officers about the creation of the army brass who were leading them was a film that Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Fox was ready to give the movie going public.What is true is that the Academy in its early years was a pretty slap dash affair which did face challenges to its existence. The superintendent who really got the place going on a full time basis was a man named Sylvanus Thayer who arrived in 1817 after the War Of 1812.But this story which is before the War Of 1812 has a man from the regular army come with a company of regular army men to be in charge of the Military Academy. Laird Cregar does not believe in the mission of the Academy, you only learn by being in the army and he says plainly to those new recruits is force them to quit and to close the Academy at West Point down. Of course the cadets show they have the right stuff and as we know West Point still exists. As for the particulars of the plot Washington society belle Maureen O'Hara whose father supported the idea of the Academy has two recruits sniffing around her in some deep heat. One is southern aristocrat John Sutton and the other is frontiersman from Kentucky George Montgomery. No doubt Montgomery was in a part that may have been offered to Tyrone Power first. Personally I think Maureen's favorite leading man John Wayne would have been ideal.She would have settled for either Ty or the Duke whom she spoke favorably of in her memoirs. Her rather distasteful memory of the film comes from Montgomery trying to take liberties with her while the film was shooting. Maureen said she loathed Montgomery and walked off the set, but came back and finished the film.It's not history but Ten Gentlemen From West Point holds up well as action/adventure entertainment.
Plot Keywords: cadet, major, socialite, congressman, military officer, fiancée, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A father and son aviation drama, in which a gruff sergeant wants to make a man and a flyer out of his young son.
Plot Keywords: sergeant, son, veteran, girl next door, divorcée, pilot, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when Powell's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star Keeler.—Alessandro Martini <alemartini@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: cadet, general, daughter, lieutenant, sergeant, amusing, passionate ...
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