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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 0:32:49 GMT
Okay, I know you don't salute sergeants, at least not in the US military. (I was a buck sergeant at 19.) Let's name some actors who look like career sergeants or played memorable ones. I'll start with Victor McLaglen as an Irish-American sergeant and Harry Andrews as a British one. Man, do they look like NCOs! ( I sure as hell didn't.)   |
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 7, 2018 0:51:25 GMT
James Caan as Staff Sergeant Dohun in A BRIDGE TOO FAR. He was the coolest cat in the movie. (Is a Staff Sergeant like a regular Sergeant?)  |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 0:59:35 GMT
James Caan as Staff Sergeant Dohun in A BRIDGE TOO FAR. He was the coolest cat in the movie. (Is a Staff Sergeant like a regular Sergeant?) A Staff Sergeant has three stripes and one rocker - one rank ahead of buck sergeant (a slang term, by the by), one rank below Sergeant First Class or Platoon Sergeant.  |
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 7, 2018 1:13:02 GMT
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY -- Burt Lancaster as Sgt. Milt Warden
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 1:21:53 GMT
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY -- Burt Lancaster as Sgt. Milt Warden "He'd drown in his own spit if I wasn't here to swab it out for him."  |
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 7, 2018 1:24:34 GMT
Sgt. Dana Andrews becomes a platoon leader unwillingly when his lieutenant and top sergeant are killed while landing in Italy and the third in command has a nervous breakdown in Lewis Milestone’s “A Walk In The Sun” (1945).  Andy Griffith makes drill instruction Myron McCormick’s life miserable in “No Time For Sergeants” (1958). McCormick and Griffith (Don Knotts in the middle)  |
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Post by petrolino on Oct 7, 2018 1:31:09 GMT
Robert Taylor in Tay Garnett's 'Bataan' (1943) ...
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 7, 2018 1:31:10 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Oct 7, 2018 1:32:17 GMT
It's like the Village People directed a movie about the military.  |
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 7, 2018 1:33:33 GMT
which was a remake of  |
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 7, 2018 1:39:14 GMT
Am I imagining it, or did James Whitmore play a sergeant in every cavalry and war movie he was in?
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 7, 2018 1:45:58 GMT
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY -- Burt Lancaster as Sgt. Milt Warden "He'd drown in his own spit if I wasn't here to swab it out for him." well selected, Bravo! |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 2:00:38 GMT
Robert Taylor in Tay Garnett's 'Bataan' (1943) ...
In the memorable ending, Dane digs his own grave, literally, then sets up a machine gun in it for the last stand. |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 2:05:58 GMT
Am I imagining it, or did James Whitmore play a sergeant in every cavalry and war movie he was in? Well, he's a sergeant in Battleground. |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 2:12:32 GMT
which was a remake of I think of Kelly's Heroes and Three Kings as two more remakes of Gunga Din. |
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 7, 2018 2:29:03 GMT
A REB Sarge AND A YANKEE Sarge.... AS ALLIES IN MAJOR DUNDEE   |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 2:42:48 GMT
Sergeant Rutledge  |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 7, 2018 2:52:41 GMT
I've been corrected regarding my initial post which says that Victor McLaglen is next to Henry Fonda in the Fort Apache still. It's Ward Bond. McLaglen plays a sergeant in Fort Apache though, and in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon as well.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 7, 2018 2:53:39 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 7, 2018 3:00:06 GMT
Fort Apache (1948) Victor McLaglen ... Sgt. Festus Mulcahy  |
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