Another three goodies-
"A walk in the sun"- follows a US Army infantry company in Sicily-
resolutely unheroic and pointing out the
"They were not divided"- a British tank squadron followed from basic
training to combat in NW Europe (in Shermans)- thoroughly convincing.
"Attack!"- Jack Palance as a worn-out US infantry officer in NW Europe,
Eddie Albert as a political appointee company commander, Lee Marvin as a
cynical Colonel with post-war politics uppermost in his mind. Lack of
official cooperation means there's some fairly odd hardware (a fearsome German
Tank cobbled together out of a prehistoric Marmon Herrington light tank
prototype) but dramatically it's very effective.
There's also an excellent Sam Fuller movie about a US company fighting a
delaying action in deep snow in Korea- the title escapes me for the
moment.
Talking of Private Ryan- does anyone know if those fake Tigers are the
same individual machines as the Kelly's Heroes Tigers?
I can not allow all these great old movies to pass by without mentioning
"Objective Burma", w/ Erroll Flynn, arguably my favorite of WW2 movies,
and the one movie around that captures a true special operation in all it's
ups and downs. Enough so that I make all the prospective candidates that we
send down
to selection every year watch it during our own pre-selection. And they
have to watch it too, since it's part of the whole sleep deprivation
thing...<EG>.
Los
> Robin Paul wrote:
> Another three goodies-
> At 9:44 PM -0500 3/19/00, Los wrote:
Good thing you don't pick *boring* movies as aprt of the sleep
deprivation thing :-) That woudl eb cruel.
In a message dated 3/19/00 6:16:50 PM Central Standard Time,
> Robin.Paul@tesco.net writes:
<< There's also an excellent Sam Fuller movie about a US company fighting a
delaying action in deep snow in Korea- the title escapes me for the
moment.
> [quoted text omitted]
Steel Helmet, a very good film...
John
In a message dated 3/19/00 8:45:20 PM Central Standard Time,
los@cris.com writes:
<< I can not allow all these great old movies to pass by without mentioning
"Objective Burma", w/ Erroll Flynn, arguably my favorite of WW2 movies,
and the one movie around that captures a true special operation in all it's
ups and downs. Enough so that I make all the prospective candidates that we
send down
to selection every year watch it during our own pre-selection. And they
have to watch it too, since it's part of the whole sleep deprivation
thing...<EG>.
> [quoted text omitted]
There is a movie called "Never so Few" about Southeast Asia, starring Frank
Sinatra, Steve McQueen, and a few others, that is so...odd that it's hard to
describe. One scene has Sinatra's native gun-bearer pulling the pins on
grenades, setting them in front of Sinatra, for him to throw. Another is a
raid on a hut where some Japanese officers were being "entertained". One
character breaks down the door, and sprays the room with an SMG. The camera
cuts to an interior shot of the room, and only the Japanese were shot! Not one
of the prostitutes was hit! Still another was a scene of an assault on a
Japanese prepared position, one character jumps into a trench, the next one
stands on the edge of it, and sprays the entire trench with an SMG, including
where his buddy just went! Some of my gamer friends and I watched this one
late night after a game, and just broke up laughing! Till this day none of us
can mention that film without busting up!
John
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:15:01PM -0500, JohnDHamill@aol.com wrote:
Hmmm... are you sure? The IMDB entry for "Steel Helmet" talks about a Korean
kid and a Buddhist temple. "Fixed Bayonets" sounds more like it. That one
doesn't mention the situation, though.
I caught the one about the company fighting a delaying action
_and_ "Men in War" during last year's Memorial Day movie marathon on
cable. Both very good movies.