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The war will go on and on and on...

Yes Lutzow, I always hum this tune when planning a great panzer blitz [:D][:D][:D]

Alright,alright already let me get my dinosaur brain around this now. You go from Cary Grant in "Father Goose",not "Destination Tokyo" but something obscure and certainly off the character norm for Cary Grant. You end up with the poster child of German bad guys Mr. roll the fuel drums under my tank Robert Shaw. Not a bad choice at all and a rather interesting character.

How about Duval as Colonel Radl from "The Eagle Has Landed"?  His character was wounded on the Russian front.

I was reading this and went off to look at Alexsandr Nevsky on youtube, then went off and watched stuff on Poland and the Battle of Vienna.  I could spend all day on youtube.

ORIGINAL: hgilmer3

I could spend all day on youtube.

Naa, I could and do spend all day on WitE now...LOL God I love this game [&o][&o][&o]

ORIGINAL: desicat

How about Duval as Colonel Radl from "The Eagle Has Landed"?  His character was wounded on the Russian front.

I just wasn't convinced in his performance as a German officer, Shaw IMO did a great job. I thought about Clint Eastwood in his German uniform but it had no relation to the east front.

Damn, I was going to suggest Robert Shaw. Just so I could hum the theme from Jaws playing Carnage as Russians....

I couldn't remember what movie Robert Shaw starred in, but seeing one of the posts above, reminded me.

Yeah, Robert Shaw definitely hit the mark as a obsessed axis tank commander. When I am playing this game, I can see Shaw's character leading the charge, even if it was to his own detriment and destruction in the long run.

Great movie Battle of the Bulge.

How about Ed Harris in " Enemy at the Gates "? Its even a East Front movie.

Ah, I completely forgot about Enemy at the Gates.  Good movie [;)]

If I had to choose an actor I would go with Coburn. Oh, and what about the aristocratic captain Stransky of that movie (Iron Cross): Maximilian Schell [8D]

ORIGINAL: Seydlitz69

How about Ed Harris in " Enemy at the Gates "? Its even a East Front movie.

There are some nice screen captures to be had from that movie,thanks for the reminder. Wish they would have followed a Russian rifle or smg squad and not done the sniper scenario.

Never watched the movie, but the sniper rifle looks impressive. Many years ago a peer of mine brought his WW2 guns to the range (we call that Ordonnanzwaffen here). He owned a Mosin-Nagant, K98 and Luger 08, and we spent the day by trying to hit targets on 50m (pistol) and 150m (rifle). In comparison to the SSG 69 I normally used back then, the ricol of those old carbines was brutal, in particular the Russian rifle. I wonder how anyone actually could hit targets on long ranges with these guns.

Well, since the Shaw movie was on the Western Front, let me throw out the most hard-bitten character, even more so than Steiner. I forget the name, but it was a 50's TV series called, I think, "combat". His face would make a great icon..

Or how about the US actor (darn poor memory - the guy with Jane Fonda in that cowboy movie where his lazy horse was leaning on the barn and he kept saying "I'll drink to that!") in the war movie where at the end he stabbed a surrendering German soldier not knowing that the war was over? He was also in "The Dirty Dozen".

Henri

You are talking about Lee Marvin....

He was a actual WWII vet as well, combat and all.

It was Vick Morrow, even Dr foo's avatar looks like him...

Opp's he had two actors in mind...

Btw, I love Lee Marvin movies. A man among men...Who doesn't love the "Dirty Dozen". Or who doesn't love Charles Bronson the uglyest lead man of all time. With those two in a dark alley, run...

Sorry, I forgot to add Vic Morrow for the 'combat' actor. My bust...

I do have to agree tho, Vic Morrow face is definitely chisled for a war vet look. Too bad he had to die so horribly.