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Nobody ever mentions this movie: Tobruk with Rock Hudson and Nigel Green and George Peppard.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I enjoyed it then. I don't want to watch it again, since I have fond memories of it and don't want to be disappointed.[:)]

We just pulled out 'Bridge Too Far' to watch. My eldest watches the planning phase and looked at me (11 years-old) saying, "Dad--How could they be so STUPID?!! Those ARE tanks in the picture. Even I can SEE that!"

Good kid.

How about The Longest Day? That is a fine film.

Patton. Hello, has anyone mentioned that one yet.

Kelly's Heroes

Yep.

Abbott and Costello!

Favorite comedy duo. All their WWII films, hysterical (In the Navy, In the Army, Keep 'em Flying).

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Patton. Hello, has anyone mentioned that one yet.

Kelly's Heroes

Yep.

Abbott and Costello!

Favorite comedy duo. All their WWII films, hysterical (In the Navy, In the Army, Keep 'em Flying).

warspite1

I used to love Abbott and Costello films as a kid. But funnier than Laurel and Hardy? And you are forgetting the funniest double act in film history - Affleck and Damon....

Best war movie: 1941 [8D]

I used to love Abbott and Costello films as a kid. But funnier than Laurel and Hardy?

To me at least.

Pearl Harbor - with Ben

Western:-
Eastwoods 'High Plains Drifter'. Also Once Upon a Time In the West.

War:-
Lawrence Of Arabia; Das Boot; Stalingrad (same producers as Das Boot - the end sequence and music really get to me!); Downfall; Zulu; Ice Cold In Alex; Blue Max; Letters from Iwo Jima; Where Eagles Dare; Thin Red Line; Battle Of Britain (watched it just the other day).

Sci-fi:-
Alien; Aliens; Predator; Pitch Black.

Scary stuff:-
Silence Of the Lambs; 28 Days Later; 28 Weeks Later; Wolf Creek; Wolf Creek 2.

Other films I'd highly recommend:-
Forrest Gump; The Green Mile; The Book of Eli; The Reader; School for Scoundrels (original B&W not that crap recent remake!!); The Holiday; Centurion (Roman Britain with Michael Fassbender, Olga Kuryenko); Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2; classics like Ben Hur, Cleopatra; Dr Zhivago.

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Pearl Harbor - with Ben

warspite1

Which category - war or comedy?

ORIGINAL: Cheeks

Pearl Harbor - with Ben

You are banned from the site for 10 days!!!![:D]

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A favorite of mine is "In Harm's Way"

Same. Yeah, it does kinda look like a WWII film shot in the 60's/40's time warp, but I love the film.

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Where Eagles Dare.
Early Eastwood, and I think Richard Burton?

Yep.

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Sci-Fi: Forbidden Planet

Another favorite!

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Nobody ever mentions this movie: Tobruk with Rock Hudson and Nigel Green and George Peppard.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I enjoyed it then. I don't want to watch it again, since I have fond memories of it and don't want to be disappointed.[:)]

Haven't seen it in about 15 years. or so. Good movie. I just saw a documentary on the IDG, last week, and instantly thought of this.

Oft overlooked War Film - Play Dirty

I wonder why it took so long for someone to mention THE LONGEST DAY. One that I've always found interesting (maybe because I watched the Star Trek episode based on it first) is THE ENEMY BELOW.

And besides watching - how about reading. The Cornelius Ryan triple (THE LONGEST DAY and A BRIDGE TOO FAR are on Amazon, THE LAST BATTLE is on Amazon, but not if you look under Ryan's name (odd)) might make good reading for a kid interested in history. And they take a while to read.

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I wonder why it took so long for someone to mention THE LONGEST DAY. One that I've always found interesting (maybe because I watched the Star Trek episode based on it first) is THE ENEMY BELOW.

And besides watching - how about reading. The Cornelius Ryan triple (THE LONGEST DAY and A BRIDGE TOO FAR are on Amazon, THE LAST BATTLE is on Amazon, but not if you look under Ryan's name (odd)) might make good reading for a kid interested in history. And they take a while to read.

Enemy Below is a GREAT FILM! Always think about when I watch ST: TOS "Balance of Terror" too...

My eldest and I are going to go on a war movie BINGE!

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I wonder why it took so long for someone to mention THE LONGEST DAY. One that I've always found interesting (maybe because I watched the Star Trek episode based on it first) is THE ENEMY BELOW.

And besides watching - how about reading. The Cornelius Ryan triple (THE LONGEST DAY and A BRIDGE TOO FAR are on Amazon, THE LAST BATTLE is on Amazon, but not if you look under Ryan's name (odd)) might make good reading for a kid interested in history. And they take a while to read.

Enemy Below is a GREAT FILM! Always think about when I watch ST: TOS "Balance of Terror" too...

My eldest and I are going to go on a war movie BINGE!

warspite1

John 3rd of the war films I mention previously, if you are going for a war movie binge - and you haven't yet seen this - I really would recommend Operation Daybreak.

Besides "Gallipoli" the Ozzies have some pretty good movies taking place in WWI: "The Lighthorsemen", ANZACS and the aforementioned "Beneath Hill 60".



When I was there last year the wife and I attended the "Last Post" ceremony in Ypres/Ieper/Wipers. Even though all of the ancestors I know of were already in the US by the time of WWI I found 8 names with the same surname as me and 2 more with my mother's surname on the panels of the monument.



Oops - 1st Australian Tunneling Co monument in Ypres.

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Some of the tunnelers handiwork. It's called the "Pool of Peace". In 1917 it wasn't.



That's where some of the German trenches were.