What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ??

[sadja]

All throught the war years many movies were made about the different groups of soldiers, sailors, airmen and such. My favoirites were Battle for the North Atlantic featuring Humphrey Bogart. About the merchant marine and navy armed guard. My Dad was naval armed guard on a Tanker running alone in the mid and south Atlantic, and a Liberty ship in the Pacific. The other was Objective Burma. I was in the 2nd Ranger Bn. in the 80's and we took our linege from the 4077th "Merrills Maurders". The realism detail in the begining is spot on. You can take todays ranger manual from warning order through jump and it was portrayed almost perfect if a little abreveated. the jump comands were the same in the movie as they were at Benning in 1979.

[wgs_explorer]

I always liked the Dam Busters.

[wgs_explorer]

Another is Sink the Bismarck.

[thegreatwent]

Run Silent Run Deep (1958) is one of my all time favorites.

[AW1Steve]

12 O'clock high and the San Pebbles.

[thegreatwent]

The Sand Pebbles is good but the ending is tough to watch, glad to see it finally came out on DVD.

[JeffroK]

Saw "Assignment in Brittany (1943)" this morning, apart from the abysmal acting and shoddy FX it was a goo yarn.
 
Being from its era, the enemy soldiers were not handled in a PC way, couple of slit throats, lots of bayonets!!!

[Brady]

Ice Cold in Alex, is a favorate of mine as well.

Sahara, is another favorate of mine, along with Dambusters, as noted above many of the US films from that eara are very cheasy, Sahara is but its good fun, Ice Cold in Alex though is likely my Favorate.

[Panther Bait]

I always liked The Dawn Patrol (1938 Errol Flynn version, never saw the 1930 original)
 
 

[gladiatt]

Guys, i am asking to those with a long memory.
YYYYears ago, when i was a kid, i saw a film about a ground battle in pacific.
In my memorie it really was great. But i can't find wich one it is: it is not "Leatherneck" with John Wayne, and it is not the one about Okinawa with Richard Widmark; it's not Merryl Marauder with Eroll Flynn either.

I remenber there was a scene where a young GI in a outpost let his wounded buddy to search for help, and run like a mad in the jungle in the night, crossing a jap patrol.
Does it raise something in somebody's memory ???

[treespider]

May be outside the time frame specified but - Pork Chop Hill

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: treespider

May be outside the time frame specified but - Pork Chop Hill

Wasn't this one in VIetnam war ? I am sure the one i am thinking about is during WWII

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: treespider

May be outside the time frame specified but - Pork Chop Hill

Wasn't this one in VIetnam war ? I am sure the one i am thinking about is during WWII

Nope - Korea - Gregory Peck 1959 --- a true classic.

EDIT: gladiatt - Ahh I see I was simply replying to the OP...not to your inquiry

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt


Guys, i am asking to those with a long memory.
YYYYears ago, when i was a kid, i saw a film about a ground battle in pacific.
In my memorie it really was great. But i can't find wich one it is: it is not "Leatherneck" with John Wayne, and it is not the one about Okinawa with Richard Widmark; it's not Merryl Marauder with Eroll Flynn either.

I remenber there was a scene where a young GI in a outpost let his wounded buddy to search for help, and run like a mad in the jungle in the night, crossing a jap patrol.
Does it raise something in somebody's memory ???

Between Heaven and Hell ? Robert Wagner.

[Mark VII]

I love Sink the Bismark (1960) and The Sand Pebbles (1966) but they were made outside the requested time window.  I would think Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) would be my favorite from that time period.

edit: 12 O'Clock High (1949) would also be high on my list.

[mdiehl]

In the "war movie that was not a war movie" we can add among the best films The Caine Mutiny.

[anarchyintheuk]

Great flick, but the Padishah Emporer's, er . . . Jose Ferrar's character deserved a beat down at the end of the movie.

Re: Casablanca. Love it when Bogie starts talking about the new German 77mm guns. What's 11mm between friends?

[joey]

12 Oclock High is one of the all time best I have seen.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: joey

12 Oclock High is one of the all time best I have seen.

When I went through Sub School that movie was part of the official leadership curriculum. They showed a long scene, then did discussion, Q&A, then showed another, etc. Watch it from that perspective and it's a whole different movie.

The team-building techniques Peck's character used were very similar to those in "Soul of a New Machine", the Pulitzer-winning book about the process of designing a new mini-computer. "Signing up", "purgatory", "interim rewards"and other techniques from Twelve Oclock are also used in civilian life.

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: gladiatt


Guys, i am asking to those with a long memory.
YYYYears ago, when i was a kid, i saw a film about a ground battle in pacific.
In my memorie it really was great. But i can't find wich one it is: it is not "Leatherneck" with John Wayne, and it is not the one about Okinawa with Richard Widmark; it's not Merryl Marauder with Eroll Flynn either.

I remenber there was a scene where a young GI in a outpost let his wounded buddy to search for help, and run like a mad in the jungle in the night, crossing a jap patrol.
Does it raise something in somebody's memory ???

Between Heaven and Hell ? Robert Wagner.

I just give a quick look on internet about Robert Wagner movies, and the summary seems to fit ! That's great, thank you steve !