On this day in movie history – Dunkirk (2017 movie & books):

Dunkirk

directed and written by Christopher Nolan,

released in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2017.

Music by Hans Zimmer.

Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Damien Bonnard, Aneurin Barnard, Lee Armstrong, James Bloor, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden, Luke Thompson, Michel Biel, Constantin Balsan, Billy Howle, Mikey Collins, Callum Blake, Dean Ridge, Bobby Lockwood, Will Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Nolan, James D’Arcy, Matthew Marsh, Cillian Murphy, Adam Long, Harry Styles, Miranda Nolan, Bradley Hall, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Brett Lorenzini, Michael Fox, Brian Vernel, Elliott Tittensor, Kevin Guthrie, Harry Richardson, Jochum ten Haaf, Johnny Gibbon, Richard Sanderson, Kim Hartman, Calam Lynch, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Tom Gill, John Nolan, Bill Milner, Jack Riddiford, Harry Collett, Eric Richard, Sam Aronow, Simon Ates, Sander Blom, Michael Caine, Sam Dacombe, Ross Donnelly, Dennis Eleveld, Paul Riley Fox, Jack Gover, Austin Head, Benjamin Hodder, Drew Neal Horton, Nick Howden-Steenstra, Sander Huisman, Christian Janner, Jedediah Jenk, Davey Jones, Robin Lee, Han Leopold, Samuel Louwagie, Valiant Michael, Thomas Millet, Conor O’Dowda, Johnny Otto, Robby Prinsen, Christian Roberts, Jan-Michael Rosner, Connor Ryan, Reinier Tetteroo, Pierre Valle, Michiel van Ieperen, Bram Vlot, Nick Vorsselman, Merlijn Willemsen, Nirman Wolf.

Recommended reading:

Dunkirk:

The History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Joshua Levine.

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks.

Published 2017.

ISBN-10: 0062792148

ISBN-13: 978-0062792143

Description:

The epic true story of Dunkirk – now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance.

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua Levine explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.

The Miracle of Dunkirk:

The True Story of Operation Dynamo

By Walter Lord.

Published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published 2017.

ISBN-10: 1504047540

ISBN-13: 978-1504047548

Description:

In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear.

Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was ferried safely back to England.

Based on interviews with hundreds of survivors and told by “a master narrator,” The Miracle of Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).

On this day in movie history - The Score (2001):

The Score

directed by Frank Oz,

written by Daniel E. Taylor, Kario Salem, Lem Dobbs and Scott Marshall Smith,

based on a story by Daniel E. Taylor and Kario Salem,

was released in the United States on July 13, 2001.
Music by Howard Shore.

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer, Paul Soles, Jamie Harrold, Serge Houde, Jean-René Ouellet, Martin Drainville, Claude Despins, Mark Camacho, Marie-Josée Colburn, Gavin Svensson, Thinh Truong Nguyen, Carlo Essagian, Christian Tessier, Lenie Scoffié, Bobby Brown, Maurice Demers, Christian Jacques, Henry Farmer, Dacky Thermidor, Gerard Blouin, Charles V. Doucet, Pierre Drolet, Norman Mikeal Berketa, Eric Hoziel, John Talbot, Richard Zeman, Nick Carasoulis, Cassandra Wilson, Mose Allison, Lisa Marie Blair, Bill Haughland, David L. McCallum, Arnold Montey, Lonnie Plaxico, Christine Solomon, Angelo Tsarouchas.

On this day in movie history - Death Becomes Her (1992):

Death Becomes Her

directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by Martin Donovan and David Koepp,

was released in the United States on July 13, 1992.
Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy, Adam Storke, Nancy Fish, Alaina Reed-Hall, Michelle Johnson, Mary Ellen Trainor, William Frankfather, John Ingle, Clement von Franckenstein, Petrea Burchard, Jim Jansen, Mimi Kennedy, Paulo Tocha, Mark Davenport, Thomas Murphy, Michael Mills, Sonia Jackson, Jill C. Klein, Jean St. James, Debra Jo Rupp, Carol Ann Susi, Kay Yamamoto, Jacquelyn K. Koch, Anya Longwell, Stuart Mabray, Colleen Morris, Jonathan Silverman, Meg Wittner, Carrie Jean Yazel, Michael A. Nickles, John Enos, Danny Lee Clark, Fabio, Joel Beeson, Ron Stein, Bonnie Cahoon, Stéphanie Anderson, Bob Swain, Eric Clark, Dave Brock, Lydia Peterkoch, Phillip Irwin Cooper, Ernest Harada, Susan Kellermann, Kevin Caldwell, Alex Hernandez, Donna Ekholdt, Tammy Gantz, Melissa Martin, Jeff Adkins, Cheryl Baxter, Cameron English, Edmond Alan Forsyth, Bob Gaynor, Don Hesser, Michael Higgins, Kenneth Hughes, Kenneth Knaff, Glean Lewis, Keith McDaniel, Charles McGowan, Regan Patno, Lacy Darryl Phillips, Matt Sergott, Paul Michael Thorpe, Sergio Trujillo, Randy Crenshaw, Jon Joyce, Jerry Whitman, Timothy Burchett, Anthony S. Johnson, Michael Mills, Michael O’Hearn, Sydney Pollack, Ai Wan, Richard Yett.

On this day in movie history - The Dead Pool (1988):

The Dead Pool

directed by Buddy Van Horn,

written by Steve Sharon,

based on a story by Steve Sharon, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw,

was released in the United States on July 13, 1988.

Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan C. Kim, David Hunt, Michael Currie, Michael Goodwin, Darwin Gillett, Anthony Charnota, Christopher P. Beale, John Vick, Jeff Richmond, Patrick N. Van Horn, Sigrid Wurschmidt, Jim Carrey, Deborah A. Bryan, Nicholas Love, Maureen McVerry, John X. Heart, Victoria Bastel, Kathleen Turco-Lyon, Michael Faqir, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Wallace Choy, Melodie Soe, Kristopher Logan, Scott Vance, Glenn Wright, Stu Klitsner, Karen Kahn, Shawn Elliott, Ren Reynolds, Ed Hodson, Edward Hocking, Diego Chairs, Patrick Valentino, Calvin Jones, Melissa Martin, Phil Dacey, Louis Giambalvo, Peter Anthony Jacobs, Bill Wattenburg, Hugh McCann, Suzanne Sterling, Lloyd Nelson, Charles Martinet, Taylor Gilbert, George Orrison, Marc Alaimo, Justin Whalin, Kris LeFan, Katie Bruce, Harry Demopoulos, John Frederick Jones, Martin Ganapoler, James W. Gavin, Craig Hosking, Steven Adler, Cynthia Brian, Michael E. Burgess, Richard Conti, Richard Conti, Brian Danker, Jack Duane, Duff McKagan, D.C. Murphy, Axl Rose, Slash, Theodore Carl Soderberg, Izzy Stradlin, John Woehrle.

On this day in music history - Idle Hours, by Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey (1961):

Idle Hours

Album by Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey,

recorded July 13, 1961.

Track list:

Darling I Miss You So; Long Time Blues; You Are My Life; Or Yes, Baby; Please Baby; Leave Me or Love Me; Idle Hours; You Have No Love in Your Heart; Good Luck Darling; No More Cryin’; I Got the Blues So Bad 6. End It All.

On this day in movie history - The Night Holds Terror (1955):

The Night Holds Terror

directed and written by Andrew L. Stone,

was released in the United States on July 13, 1955.
Based on the true 1953 Courtier case.
Music by Lucien Cailliet.

Cast:

Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes, David Cross, Eddie Marr, Jack Kruschen, Joyce McCluskey, Jonathan Hale, Barney Phillips, Roy Neal, Joel Marston, Guy Kingsford, Stanley Andrews, Charles Herbert, Barbara Woodell, William Woodson.

On this day in movie history - He Ran All the Way (1951):

He Ran All the Way

directed by John Berry,

written by Hugo Butler and Dalton Trumbo,

based on the novel by Sam Ross,

was released in the United States on July 13, 1951.
Music by Franz Waxman.

Cast:

John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, Gladys George, Norman Lloyd, Robert Hyatt, Clancy Cooper, Vici Raaf, Keith Hetherington, Robert Karnes.