Posted on 06/06/2010 2:04:06 PM PDT by PROCON
Last week, during Memorial Day weekend, we had fun telling of our favorite WWII movies .
On this solemn day, what are you're favorite D-Day movies?
she is perfect
She was Producer Darryl F Zanuck’s lover at the time, that’s why she was cast in the film.
Nah, Mitchum was perfect as Cota.
Yeah, you’re right. His whole manner was great. He even found that last cigar before he said “Take me up the hill, son”.
She was a “distraction” to the Germans, for sure.
she was awesome
Wow, you're right, in my minds eye, I remeber his face, (and girth)...LOL!
I meant “Run me up the hill, son”.
LOL, his wife's reaction to him was hillarious, even trying to see what got into the soup to make him act like that.
I saw parts of it the other day. Totally unwatchable. The script and the acting so contrived, it was sickening.
Band of Brothers hands down.. Then the Longest Day... Saving Ryans Privates was good, getting the effect of how gruesome the landing was, but the story... Blah!
Actors today don’t even compare to those real actors.
Nope but been the the American Cemetary in Luxembourg City and have seen Patton with his troops.. Very moving.. And Bastonge is cool to..
I agree I never served in Combat but even as a kid I could tell that was just phony. There was hardly any snow in certain scenes... It was stupid... Except the Malmedy Scene.
Yep, and Robert Shaw was so over-the-top as the German Tank Commander, it was as if he was trying to hunt a shark or something. ;)
I’d have to agree; probably the best depiction of the airborne landings that preceded the actual invasion. One of the rare examples of Hollywood getting it right.
Things I learned from the "Battle of the Bulge"
1. The Ardennes is a semi-arid prairie with few trees.
2. German panzers looked remarkably like American tanks.
3. A city police detective is worth a division of military intelligence officers.
4. The Germans were just a few yards short of winning the war when they failed to capture a vital fuel depot.
Re: “German panzers looked remarkably like American tanks.”
Yea, that always bugs me too in wwii movies. I love the movie ‘Patton’ too, but they must have have used the same prop guys as were used in the Battle of the Bulge. Their desert “panzer” III/IV’s were 50 era American Patton series M48’s and Americans “Shermans were M47’s.
I suspect that most of the real Panzers and Tigers ended up in pretty sad shape by the end of the war. Probably pretty hard to get hold of them.
Patton.
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