Favorite War flick?

[seanratpel]

" THE WILD GEESE" nobody remembers this great flick with Richard Harris and Attenborough??

[gacook]

"Platoon" was the best TV show; "We Were Soldiers" is my favorite war movie.

I used to watch "Platoon" with my dad; he said it was the most realistic TV show he'd ever seen done on Vietnam. It was very moving for him, and it fascinated me because it gave me a glimpse into what he'd gone through, yet wouldn't talk about.

[JavaBrewer]

Patton
Sink the Bismark

And...

[Baz]

[sammyg2]

the devil's brigade, based on the true story of the 1st special forces brigade.

[jwgn777]

[Baz]

(the plot to kill Churchill)

[silverc4s]

Originally Posted by ledhedsymbols

Oh! I almost forgot In Harm's Way. The Duke and Kirk Douglas among others, great movie!

This..... In addition to being a damn good war film, one of my best friends and former Marine Corps buddy, Dale Burbank played the radioman that the Duke tossed off his chair to get on the radio in one dramatic scene. Dale was in USMC Force Recon and stationed in Hawaii at the time the movie was made.

[lowyder993s]

Has this been posted? An UNBELIEVABLE true story...Aussie made.

https://jollyrogerskullsandbones.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/beneath-hill-60-an-iconic-war-film-that-evokes-possibilities/

[monoflo]

Battleground -- if for nothing else the end scene as they are pulling out after the Bulge.

Enemy Below - tried to tell the story from the German side.

Major Dundee - for the hell of it

[Chuck Miller]

I'll go with Robert Alddrich's 'ATTACK' from Norman Brooks play, adapted by James Poe....

Attack (1956) - IMDb

You will not think of Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Buddy Ebsen, and especially Eddie Albert ever the same...

[Danimal16]

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I love a john wayne flick involving pt boats. Operation pacfic maybe?

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I think you may be referring to "They Were Expendable"

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Chuck Miller

I'll go with Robert Alddrich's 'ATTACK' from Norman Brooks play, adapted by James Poe....

Attack (1956) - IMDb

You will not think of Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Buddy Ebsen, and especially Eddie Albert ever the same...

Marvin was USMC during WW2

Eddie Albert was in the Navy aboard Landingcraft at Tarawa in 43....

[tabs]

Originally Posted by monoflo

Battleground -- if for nothing else the end scene as they are pulling out after the Bulge.

Enemy Below - tried to tell the story from the German side.

Major Dundee - for the hell of it

Directed by William Wellman who during WW1 was an Aviator in the famous Layfette Escadrille.

Also directed Wings which won first Best Picture Oscar, which then spawned Hughes Hells Angles etc

Other Wellman movies include A Star Is Born, Oxbow Incident, The Story Of GI Joe

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Baz

(the plot to kill Churchill)

Churchill?????? The Day If The Jackal was about a true plot to assassinate De Gaulle.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by cxghxgh

Thin Red Line. Nothing else is even close.

The original or the remake?

If the remake...sorry Charlie not great nor really good.

"From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" were both James Jones WW2 novels.

At the end of the movie Eternity the character Pruitt played by Montgomery Clift dies, but in the novel he continues on to Red Line.

[tabs]

Major Dundee Peckinpah was at the Directors helm during this one. However he disavowed the finished movie as the studio tampered with his version.

Peckinpah then went on to do his ostensible masterpiece The Wild Bunch in 69. My fav Peckinpah is The Ballad Of Cable Hogue wt Robards and Stella Stevens.

Other films by Peckinpah are Straw Dogs, The Get Away McQueen and Ali Mcgraw with Slim Pickens, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia , Pat Garret And Billy The Kid Colburn and Kristoffen Osterman Weekend, Cross Of Iron Colburn and Junior Bonner

Peckinpah had a usual cast of character actors including Slim Pickens, LQ Jones, Strother Martin, Warren Oates, Dub Taylor. Who can ever forget the bickering between Strother and LQ in the Wild Bunch?

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