World War 2 films on UK TV this weekend (26/5/18-27/5/2018)

There's really not a great deal of war films on UK tv this weekend, but I did this post last week and it was fairly well received, so I thought I'd do it again anyway... So here's the 2 offerings, which seems a bit paltry for us war movie fans, don't you think?

Guns of Navarone
Spike, Saturday 25th May, 15:45.

Another British classic, the story revolves around a group of Allied commandos tasked with the important mission of taking out 2 land based guns that thwart Allied naval efforts in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Year of production: 1961, age rating: PG, running time: 2h 50m. Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn and Stanley Baker. Director: J. Lee Thompson.

Movies poster for The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

Spike Sunday 26th May, 18:00. 

Set in WW2, Allied command dreams up a suicidal mission for a small group to infiltrate Nazi-occupied Brittany and raid a meeting of senior German officers giving the Allies the upper hand for D-Day. This task falls to a dozen of the worst convicts in the US Army, who are offered pardons if the  mission is a success. 

Year of production: 1967, age rating: 15, running time 1h 30m. Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Jim Brown. Director: Robert Aldrich.