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Dec 30, 2019 · Though much of the World War I movie 1917 is fiction, it is loosely based on an account that director Sam Mendes' paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes, told to him when he was a boy.
Dec 23, 2019 · What to know about the real World War I stories that helped inspired Sam Mendes' movie '1917.'
Dec 3, 2019 · It is this moment, and this story, that Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, director of “Revolutionary Road” and the Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre”, hoped to capture in his upcoming World War I film “1917.” The story was personal. His grandfather, Alfred Mendes, was the man who stepped forward to volunteer.
Dec 20, 2019 · The new World War I drama from director Sam Mendes, 1917, unfolds in real-time, tracking a pair of British soldiers as they cross the Western Front on a desperate rescue mission. Seemingly...
Alfred Hubert Mendes MM (18 November 1897 – 1991) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian novelist and short-story writer. He was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers (named after the literary magazine The Beacon) in Trinidad and Tobago which included Albert Gomes, C. L. R. James and Ralph de Boissière.
Dec 21, 2019 · The movie is inspired by the war stories of Mendes' grandfather Alfred Mendes, who enlisted as a 17-year-old and fought in World War I. Alfred Mendes became a novelist and...
Dec 23, 2019 · When the director Sam Mendes was a young boy, he and his father often traveled to the West Indies to visit his grandfather Alfred Mendes, a novelist. Sam, who had been brought up in North...
