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Post by vegalyra on Oct 9, 2018 13:57:41 GMT
One of the more fun cameos in a "war" film.
General Ed Fenech - Mike Myers - Inglourious Basterds
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 9, 2018 14:03:52 GMT
Glenn Ford pretends to be one in order to rally the troops in IMITATION GENERAL.
A decade later he portrays a real General (Omar Bradley) in IS PARIS BURNING?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 14:22:01 GMT
Glenn Ford pretends to be one in order to rally the troops in IMITATION GENERAL.   |
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Post by kijii on Oct 9, 2018 14:27:51 GMT
Brig. Gen. Frank D. Merrill (Jeff Chandler) from Merrill's Marauders (1962) / Sam Fuller  |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2018 15:10:39 GMT
Re George Patton. I asked about 35 WW2 vets what they thought of him and all but 2 said they either disliked or outright loathed him. Why? Slapping those soldiers. NB plural. He did it twice.
Patton's son was second-in-command when I was at Ft Knox.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2018 15:14:05 GMT
Glenn Ford pretends to be one in order to rally the troops in IMITATION GENERAL. Speaking of pretending to be a general: |
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 9, 2018 15:50:30 GMT
Sutherland's 'general':
"Where are you from, soldier ... never heard of it."
"Very pretty, Colonel ... but can they fight?"
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2018 16:00:07 GMT
General Midwinter in The Billion Dollar Brain .jpg)  |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2018 16:05:15 GMT
Sutherland's 'general':
"Very pretty, Colonel ... but can they fight?" I think of that line whenever I read about the Saudi army: handsomely paid, lavishly-equipped, well-trained, but they remain outside of combat in Syria and Yemen. |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 9, 2018 17:18:52 GMT
The 2 most evil generals in movie history?  Not sure if they were evil per se, but historically anyways some of the most inept. War had changed and they had no clue how to adapt. Just send the men into the meat grinder. It's miraculous that there were any men left over from the World War I generation that were on the lines and trenches. The horrifying thing was, the generals in the 2nd World War would fight their war just like WWI. Trusting in their static defenses while the German tanks went around the Maginot Line. Most wars were initially fought by the rules of the last war. American Civil War general charged in massed ranks like the Napoleonic Wars, even though rifled munitions made that insanity. A British Boer War general sent his troops into a Boer line, waiting for their artillery to fire so they could see their gun placements by the powder clouds. The Boers had smokeless powder and the British were slaughtered. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 9, 2018 19:14:00 GMT
Martin Sheen as General Robert E Lee in "Gettysburg"
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