Posted on 01/19/2018 8:08:33 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
Yes, Finney was great.
That movie has great beginning and ending scenes.
I’m glad at least two of us appreciate that movie.
Joseph P. Kennedy, the American ambassador to the Court of St. James, was brought home because of his pro Nazi sentiments.
“Moosechelle would have told Sir Winston to put out his cigar.”
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Imagine what Hillary would have told him to do with it.
The Dems are really into cigars——just not smoking them.:-)
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The Fall of France focused a lot of minds. One thing to think about it from across thousands of miles away from the Wehrmacht. Quite another when the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe are across a few miles of the English Channel. I think it is fair to say that only the hope of US intervention kept Britain in the war.Understand, NOBODY but the Germans wanted any part of a second world war. The first had been entirely sufficient. The Munich sellout was popular. Not just in Britain, it polled 80% in the US, too. Basically, no one in Britain thought that France would fall - and anyone who did, would have thought long and hard before agreeing to participate in the fight.
And during the night of Dec. 7. 1941, Winston Churchill slept well. Most in England slept better than they had in years that night.
“Yes, Madam, I am drunk. But you are ugly, and in the morning, I shall be sober.”
Winston Churchill : I’m the new First Lord.
Military Guard : We know, sir.
Winston Churchill : How do you know?
Military Guard : A signal was sent to the fleet this afternoon, sir.
Winston Churchill : What signal?
Military Guard : “Winston is back.”
Winston Churchill : [chuckles] And so he bloody well is!
That was a great scene.
Most people today could not comprehend it.
Thanks for the ping! Going to read.
I still have to watch it! lol. Sometime before the decade is up.
Lol. :)
To say I adore, respect, and admire Winston is not enough. He was awesome.
Catch the new movie if you can. I’ve seen it twice. I’d go again. :)
no nude scenes, sex scenes
That’s ok I may still see it. LOL.
Kind of disappointed the old man wasn’t nude.
John Lithgow did a nice turn as Churchill in Netflix The Crown
the lacklustre leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain,
Chamberlain was the one who was "nuts". Or at least blind.
No. Chamberlain was sane, according to the author. Logically or sanely, Hitler should have stuck by the deal. He could he incrementally done what he wanted to do. Instead, Hitler, a mentally unbalanced person wanted all now (a two front war with Russia in the winter?). Essentially, you had a relatively sane person believing he could come to an arrangement with an insane person. Churchill recognized you could not reason with nut jobs. Churchill saw this with the Muslim nations as well. The author contends that Churchill’s pathologies made him well suited in that particular instance in history to address the issue of Hitler.
Interesting
watched it last night
Not a teacup to be seen.
Kind of disappointed the old man wasn’t nude.
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Ne was but you didnt see much
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