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Post by bravomailer on Dec 8, 2017 20:46:38 GMT
They Were Expendable, like the already mentioned A Walk in the Sun, were made during the war but came out shortly after it ended. As I noted on the old board, the man They Were Expendable was based on lived around the corner from me in my yoot. Interesting thing about US war films made during the war, they almost never show a German being killed. Planes are shot down, ships are sunk, but we almost never see a German soldier being killed. Contrast that to all the "Japs" who get mowed down. Well, a few Germans did bite the dust.
FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO -- Franchot Tone kills Lieut. Pater Van Eyck DESPERATE JOURNEY -- The escaping fliers shoot the pursuing Raymond Massey SAHARA -- Bogie fires back at the German officer who didn't honor the white flag and ... Rick does plug Conrad Veidt at the airport in CASABLANCADidn't Robert Taylor kill more "Japs" in the ending of Bataan than in all those films combined? My point is not that it never happened but that it was rare compared to killing Japanese counterparts. This was an intentional policy based on the vilification of Germans in WWI and recognition that about one-third of Americans are of German ancestry.
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