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What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ??
the ANTI- movie we can't mention thread...

"In Harms Way"

Go Bears

If you mean movies that came out during that period, then my favorites are They Were Expendable, 12 O'Clock High, Command Decision and Battleground.

Guadalcanal Diary based on the book by Richard Tregaskis, a very young journalist who went ashore with the Gyrenes as it happened.....A true classic of the era which avoided most of the propaganda.

I like the old 'Battle of Britain'. Although you do get sick of the same footage from 4 different cameras.
 
oh, that was probably after 1950 anyway!!

Went the Day Well?

All Quiet on the Western Front. That may be before '38 tho.

I'm quite partial to The Spitfire Story, aka The First of the Few.

Loved Sands of Iwo Jima, although it would have been a better ending if John Agar had been shot. To be sensitive to the displaced islanders I will now refer to it as Sands of Iwo To. Doesn't have quite the ring to it. Neither does Objective, Myanmar!

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Loved Sands of Iwo Jima, although it would have been a better ending if John Agar had been shot. To be sensitive to the displaced islanders I will now refer to it as Sands of Iwo To. Doesn't have quite the ring to it. Neither does Objective, Myanmar!

it's burma.

funny side not to that they had johnny quest the old cartoon on last night and they were still refering to the indonesia as the dei and using all the old names. it just sounded weird.

My favorite scene from an old WW2 movie is from ‘Lost in Space’, when the Robot starts waving his arms at Will, and says “Danger… danger Will Robertson, I detect KB on the horizon”.

(Sorry, waiting for AE, and getting bored)

Any war?

Fort Apache

WW2?

Sands of Iwo Jima

I'd say Sink the Bismark, but I think that was late 50s/early 60s.

ORIGINAL: stuman

If you mean movies that came out during that period, then my favorites are They Were Expendable, 12 O'Clock High, Command Decision and Battleground.

Yea, my favorites too. Especially TWE and Battleground. I also like Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo with Van Johnson.

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

My favorite scene from an old WW2 movie is from ‘Lost in Space’, when the Robot starts waving his arms at Will, and says “Danger… danger Will Robertson, I detect KB on the horizon”.

(Sorry, waiting for AE, and getting bored)

And the response from Dr Smith: "Oh the pain...the pain"[:D]

"Ice Cold in Alex" gets my vote.

I'll admit I haven't seen as many made in that period as many of you, so my selection pool is limited. Given that qualifier, I'd say my favorite war movie from the period is definitely Twelve O'Clock High. If you'll consider a war movie that isn't a war movie but is a war movie, then the vote goes to Casablanca.

They were all so corny from that time period.  I remember seeing so many of them when I was a kid on Saturday mornings.  John Wanye, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Wiiliam Bendix, Humphrey Bogart to name slightly more than a few.  A favorite?  Hmmmm......How about 30 seconds over Tokyo, was it made after 1950 though?

My two favorites were released in 1953

"From Here to Eternity"
"The Cruel Sea"

Eternity by James Jones has to be the best book ever written about the pre WW2 brown shoe army.