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This thread brought back enough memories I pulled out some of my DVD's of 1950 movies, think I will start with Bridge of River Kwai.

Also try The Steel Helmet

The scene from "Band of Brothers" where Easy Company is hard pressed by German paras reinforced w/armor, but 2AD tanks arrive just in time. Then "Nix" says:

Capt. Nixon: Well hello second armored.

I look at the patch in my display case every time I see this scene.

A Scene in the film "Stalingrad" when a company of German assault engineers destroys a heavily fortified factory building in Stalingrad.

It just sayes boom... a very nice German company level assault on a extreamly heavily fortified factory building...
its a typical Company level German WW2 assult operation.

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From "Gettysburg":

Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain: No disrespect to you brave men, but why are you fightin' this war?
Confederate prisoner: Why are you?
Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain: Why to free the slaves, of course.
Confederate prisoner: I can't speak for some other folks, but I'm fightin' for my "rats".
Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain: Your what?
Confederate prisoner: My "rats". The "rat" to live my life like I see fit. I don't know why we can't live our lives our way and you live yours. Live and let live I've heard so folks say ...

and ...

Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: [Chamberlain is addressing his junior officers before the Confederate assault on Little Round Top]
Gentlemen... the 83rd Pennsylvania, 44th New York, and 16th Michigan will be moving in to our right. But if you look to our left, you will see that there is no one there. It's because we're the end of the line. The Union army stops here. We are the flank. Do you understand, gentlemen? We cannot retreat. We cannot withdraw. We are going to have to be stubborn today ...

Great stuff! Wish Of Gods and Generals had been as good as Gettysburg...though Lang was fantastic as Stonewall.

if i understood correctly there was to be a 3rd and final film? anyone have any word on that?

The Last Full Measure is pretty decent reading but I doubt if we'll see it made into a movie.  If OG&G had been a success there might have been a real chance. 

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Oddball in Kelly's Heroes...
"To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers."

Kelly's Heroes has a REAL following on the Forum! [:D]

I resemble that remark.

Blazing Saddles, near the end. Heddy Lamar’s bandits (that’s Hedley !) are riding across the prairie and come to a toll booth. The light turns red, the gate comes down, and they all stop.

Slim Pickens: “Le Petomane Thruway !!?? What the hell will he think of next !!”

Pauses and looks around, turns:

Slim Pickens: “Somebody go back and get a s..tload of dimes !!”

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Blazing Saddles, near the end. Heddy Lamar’s bandits (that’s Hedley !) are riding across the prairie and come to a toll booth. The light turns red, the gate comes down, and they all stop ...

The real Lamar sued Brooks and received an undisclosed sum.

Lamar also shares the patent for a secret commo syst still used today; it was a method for encrypting messages based on the technology of a player piano.

Raising Arizona has two of my favorite scenes:


One of the kidnappers asks this old store clerk: Do these balloons blow up into funny shapes?

Old timer: Well no, unless you think round is funny.



Kidnapper/Bankrobber: All right hayseeds, this is a stickup. Everybody freeze, everybody get down on the ground.

After noticing that no one is moving another old timer says: Well, which is it young feller. You want I should freeze or get down on the ground. If'n I freeze I can't rightly drop . . . and if'n I drop I'm gonna be in motion.

Some stuff from Polish comedy called "SEX MISSION"
 
Last 2 men on earth find out that they are the only ones left and all othere people in the world are women
 
- Men are extinct??? They were noth the mamoth!!!
 
The same 2 guys set in front of a Tribunal that needs to decide what to do with them
 
- You must admit that history of progress is the history of men
- Examples we want examples
- Einstein
- Lie Einstein was a women
- So Copernicus
- No Copernicus was a women to
 
And suddenly the less educated of the 2 men shouts
 
-Yeach and Curie Sklodowska To!!!!!
 
 

ORIGINAL: JWE

Blazing Saddles, near the end. Heddy Lamar’s bandits (that’s Hedley !) are riding across the prairie and come to a toll booth. The light turns red, the gate comes down, and they all stop.

Slim Pickens: “Le Petomane Thruway !!?? What the hell will he think of next !!”

Pauses and looks around, turns:

Slim Pickens: “Somebody go back and get a s..tload of dimes !!”

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" [:D]

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Blazing Saddles, near the end. Heddy Lamar’s bandits (that’s Hedley !) are riding across the prairie and come to a toll booth. The light turns red, the gate comes down, and they all stop.

Slim Pickens: “Le Petomane Thruway !!?? What the hell will he think of next !!”

Pauses and looks around, turns:

Slim Pickens: “Somebody go back and get a s..tload of dimes !!”

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" [:D]

" 'Scuse me while I whip this out." [:D]

From your banner:

"Run away!"

"Bring us a shrubbery."

"Bring out your dead!"

"strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."

"Spank me too!"

"Just a flesh wound."

"What? Behind the rabbit?"

[:D]

Another favorite movie scene. Abott and Costello doing their "Who's on first" routine. Definitely a classic.

The beginning and end of Saving Private Ryan, both cemetery and combat scenes.
 
The initial scenes of the PH attack in Tora Tora Tora, still the best enactment of that battle ever put on the screen.
 
The scenes in We Were Soldiers where the younger soldiers greet the Master Sergeant with "good morning Sergeant", and then later, ask him about the weather.
 
The 82nd's attack across the river in A Bridge Too Far.  "Hail Mary!" "Full of Grace!"
 
King Theoden's speech to his cavalry before they charge the orcs outside the walls of Minas Tiras in "The Return of the King".  They know it's hopeless, the viewers know it's hopeless, but they never hesitate.
 
 

So many to choose from... here's two.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (servant shot by arrow with paper tied to it):

"Message for you, sir!"


The 13th Warrior (Vikings preparing for battle):

Lo, there do I see my father
Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers
Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla
Where the brave may live forever...

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The 13th Warrior (

Very underrated movie.

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The 13th Warrior (

Very underrated movie.

If you can get past the Viking ship sailing up a river shallow enough to wade across in the middle of the steppes, and other rather odd scenes, yes it was a rather good movie.

I always liked the scene with the Poles from The Battle of Britain...
 
A non-operational Polish Hurricane squadron, still under training and led by a British officer, suddenly sees a group of He 111s…
 
Polish Pilots: ‘Nazi! Nazi!'…(lots of excited shouting in Polish)
 
British Officer, slowly and clearly: ‘Stop that Polish chatter and steer two-three-zero’
 
First Polish Pilot (whose command of English has suddenly disappeared): ‘Repeat Please’. Hurricane banks swiftly away towards the Germans, unseen by the British officer.
 
British Officer: ‘I say again two-three-zero’.
 
Second Polish Pilot: ‘Repeat Please’. Hurricane banks quickly away.
 
British Officer: ‘For crying out loud, Two-Three-Zero!
 
Third Polish Pilot: ‘Repeat Please’. Hurricane banks quickly away.
Fourth Polish Pilot: ‘Repeat Please’. Hurricane banks quickly away.
Fifth Polish Pilot: ‘Repeat Please’. Hurricane banks quickly away.
 
British officer: ‘Now just shut up the lot of you, and just follow me, unless you are blind as well as…’ looks over and sees his entire squadron hurtling towards the Germans. ‘Oh God’s Strewth!’ he says despairingly, turning after them.
 
A fierce air battle takes place, the Poles shouting excitedly over the radio as they savage the German formation.
 
British officer: ‘Shut Up! Silence… In Polish!’