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A Man of Wealth and Taste
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Now comes the exposition.
Ostensibly the first big budget sprawling war movie came in the late 50's with The Bridge On The River Kwai.. Holden and Alec Guinness...Others primarily British were semi documentaries Sink The Bismark, and The Dam Busters. However the first of the Big Budget Panoramic Histogram All Star war movies came in 1960 with Zanick's Longest Day story of D Day as chronicled by Cornelius Ryan, Zanick also was at D Day in 1944 filming the actual event That movies success spawn a whole host of similar movies...Battle Of the Bulge, Bridge At Remagen A Bridge To Far also a book by Ryan, Tora, Tora, Tora 12/7/41 Pearl Harbor, 2 directors and filming one Japanese and one American, Midway, andBattle Of Britain
This genre died out by the mid 70's as war movies became anathema due to Vietnam. They were nostalgic for the WW2 vets as enough time had passed from the real events to soften memories.
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