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They Were Expendable Great movie. Sink the Bismarck is also really good. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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The Caine Mutiny. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Twelve O'Clock High would be #1 by a fair margin. Next would be either Run Silent Run Deep or Sink The Bismarck. | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo or The Enemy Below I don't believe Sink the Bismarck is pre-1960. It's close, but not quite ETA: I guess it does make it. Right on 1960 _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Sands Of Iwo Jima Sergeant York The Bridge On The River Kwai | |||
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One of my personal faves - Bogart was one hell of a good actor. The Bridges of Toko-Ri, Pork Chop Hill and The McConnell Story can fill in my TV time any day. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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Run Silent Run Deep and The Dambusters were probably my favorite but I did like To Hell and Back also. | |||
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12 O'clock high easy nr 1. Stalag 17, The Enemy Below, and They were expendable, which has grown on me. I sort of really like No Man is and Island, although the story differs a wee bit from reality. For German war movies, Hunde, Wollt Ihr ewig Leben? I like it, in large part because it portrays the heroic effort the 1st Romanian Army's effort against the initial Soviet hordes onslaught. This army actually stopped Marshal Zukov's 1st echelon attack, forcing him to commit his 2nd echelon in to combat, which was not the plan. It may have saved the German 4th Army. Also interesting point. Notice how the Germans are portrayed in Stalag 17 and then in The Enemy Below. The former was made before West Germany's rearmament (allowed by the 3 western occupying powers) and entry in to NATO, while the later was made at about the time of West German entry in to NATO. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand "He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many." Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
An excellent and fairly obscure choice. I doubt many folks on the forum have seen this. | |||
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Here are some other considerations to the very excellent ones already posted: The Desert Fox To Hell and Back The Bridge on the River Kwai The Enemy Below The One That Got Away Darby's Rangers The Naked and the Dead | |||
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The Train with Bert Lancaster. | |||
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There are a number of good ones out there. Lesser known is Retreat, Hell! [1952] with Frank Lovejoy, and Richard Carlson. Attack! [1956] Jack Palance, William Smithers, and Lee Marvin. Halls Of Montezuma [1951] Richard Widmark, Richard Boone, and Jack Webb. The Bridges At Toko-Ri [1954] William Holden, Mickey Rooney, and Frederick March. __________________________ "We're after men - and I wish to God I was with them. The next time you make a mistake, I'm going to ride off and let you die." - Deke Thornton, - The Wild Bunch | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Casablanca Stalag 17 "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Brown on Resolution, Sailor of the King; same story, different movies, based on C.S.Forester novel Brown on Resolution. One man with a rifle keeps a German battle cruiser from finishing repairs while anchored in a small rock island bay, and eventually the British pursuers catch up and sink the battle cruiser. Classic story of how one person can make a difference. Jim | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Sahara Casablanca | |||
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Gone With The Wind Phone's ringing, Dude. | |||
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Another nod for Run Silent, Run Deep Sahara (with Bogart) Northwest Passage Casablanca Forty Thousand Horsemen The Desert Rats We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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Bridge on the River Kwai was great... | |||
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The Dawn Patrol, 1938. Errol Flynn Objective Burma, 1945. Errol Flynn. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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