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American and British forces send in undercover engineers to Germany to learn about their latest weapons being manufactured at Peenemunde.

The engineers have the names and papers of real deceased people. However, one of the men whose identity has been taken is actually wanted for murder.

In another case, the ex-wife (Sophia Loren) seeks out her husband, whom George Peppard is impersonating.

However, Peppard and "Dr. Engel" (Jeremy Kemp) do work at the site and attempt to ruin the missions. The end of the film, pre-CGI, is spectacular.

One of those huge international casts so prevalent in the '60s with the many war films. Producer Carlo Ponti advertised his wife, Sophia Loren, as one of the stars. She is in it very briefly.

A very good film.

It's hard for me to believe I ever saw 1941's High Sierra, though I know I did - but I forgot about Pard the dog. Usually the animals are the only thing I remember! But Pard, real name Zero, has a huge role in this.

Roy Earle was the role that lifted Bogie out of supporting roles and made him a star.

Finally out of prison, Roy Earle joins with two men (Arthur Kennedy Alan Curtis) to rob a hotel. They have a woman with them, Marie (Ida Lupino), and on the premises is a little mutt who takes to Roy.

Roy falls for a young woman, Velma, who has a club foot and pays for her surgery. However, she doesn't love him; Marie does.

When the robbery goes bad, Roy and Marie go on the run. Roy flees into the Sierra Mountains and stays there as the police attempt to capture him.

Director Raoul Walsh had hilarious stories about the filming, including having Bogart stuck in the mountain and sending him a ham sandwich and a pickle in the sweltering heat. As a side note, for $2.59, Earle fills his gas tank with ten gallons.

This was a great role for Bogart, a true antihero we root for. The film for what it was is a little long, but the cast, including Pard, is excellent. Look for Cornel Wilde as Mendoza, with darkened skin and a mustache.

Based on the actual High School for the Performing Arts, 1980's Fame is about young people training for careers in various aspects of show business.

The focus is on the multitalented Coco (Irene Cara), Doris (Maureen Teefy), an actress, Raul Garcia aka Ralph Garci (Barry Miller), a comic, Leroy (Gene Anthony Ray), a dancer, Montgomery (Paul McCrane with hair), an actor, Bruno (Lee Curreri), a musician, and Lisa (Laura Dean) a dancer.

The students grapple with their studies, sexual identity, pregnancy, home life, parents, and their attempts to achieve excellence in their chosen fields through four years of school.

Teachers include Joanna Merlin, real-life composer/music theater coach Albert Hague, Anne Meara, and Debbie Allen.

An exuberant film with some fabulous performances, including the title song performed on a congested New York street. The song danced to was Donna Summers' Hot Stuff as Fame hadn't yet been written.

Director Alan Parker gives the film an improvisational spirit, in fact, filming actors when they were just fooling around.

Many funny and poignant scenes - the rejected Lisa at the subway, the Freddie Prince monologue, the situations with Ralph's sister, Coco being filmed suggestively, Leroy at the hospital with Anne Meara.

Some trivia: Albert Hague's real life classes consisted of typecasting every woman who didn't look like 19 year old Lauren Bacall as a character actress. "well, you're no Marilyn Monroe, but maybe you can sing something." He was a riot. He wrote the musical Miss Moffatt, based on The Corn is Green, and blamed Bette Davis for its demise.