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Fighting the good fight |
I'm racking my brain, trying to recall a film I saw several years ago. It may have been on TCM. It was a WW2 film, about a German soldier, set at the very end of the war on the Western Front. Part of the movie involved a trip to a rear area (possibly his home) on a temporary leave pass. One scene in particular stands out, where he was stopped and investigated by a Feldgendarme (military policeman) to make sure he wasn't a deserter trying to sneak home. The latter part of the movie involved him trying to convince a group of stubborn German officers holed up in a fort to surrender to the Americans/British. I believe the film was in black and white, and likely shot relatively recently after the end of the war (40s/50s/maybe early 60s). It featured a lot of authentic German military equipment and uniforms. Unfortunately, I don't fully recall whether it was in English or in German. Ring a bell for anyone? | ||
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Caribou gorn |
sounds a bit like All Quiet on the Western Front, a WWI book/film. But the trying to talk officers into surrendering doesn't ring a bell. I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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| Angry Korean with a Dark Soul  |
Sounds like it could be "A Time to Love and A Time to Die" (1958) I saw it back in Korea with Korean subtitles. Starring John Gavin. Edited to add: similarity to All Quiet on your he Western Front is not an accident. Both novels were writt n by Erich Maria Remarque | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
That's not what I'm thinking of. This film was definitely WW2.
Hmm... Closer, but I don't think that's it either. | |||
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It sounds like you may be thinking of "Decision Before Dawn", made in post-war West Germany in 1951. Good film. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_Before_Dawn --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Boom. That's it. Thank you! That was driving me crazy. My memory was hazy on why he was traveling behind the lines. He wasn't going home on leave; he was working as a spy and trying to sneak through Germany to find the army corps that wanted to surrender. | |||
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| I'm not laughing WITH you  |
Or was it "Cross of Iron"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074695/ Rolan Kraps SASS Regulator Gainesville, Georgia. NRA Range Safety Officer NRA Certified Instructor - Pistol / Personal Protection Inside the Home | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Not at all. It was definitely "Decision Before Dawn". Good film, though. | |||
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The 4 leads in Cross of Iron could act circles around any 4 current "actors". Truth: The New Hate Speech | |||
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