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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jun 13, 2021 18:08:49 GMT
Man, that's a really fun (and incredibly long) night at the movies. I'd go with The Great Escape, but the other two are really great too. F*ck it, throw Kelly's Heroes on there too and make it an even four. If you're going with a Clint Eastwood WWII film, I'd pick WHERE EAGLES DARE instead. I agree. Kelly's Heroes was okay with one huge fault. Donald Sutherland's character was so out of place. Movie took place during WWII, not Vietnam
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 13, 2021 18:18:13 GMT
I've never been able to sit through The Magnificent Seven. Too hokey. I cant stand the scene where the gunfighters serve food to the villagers. I want to throw something. They would never do that in real life. It would be so demeaning and out of character. In the Seven Samurai that scene does not happen.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 13, 2021 18:34:11 GMT
Dozen
Escape
Seven
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Post by Stammerhead on Jun 13, 2021 19:01:39 GMT
I voted for The Great Escape and this video sums up its qualities better than I can.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 13, 2021 21:39:42 GMT
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Post by sostie on Jun 15, 2021 14:48:17 GMT
Great Escape
Magnificent Seven
Dirty Dozen
More Great Escape trivia...
There was a successful escape from the camp a year or so before. It was the subject of the film The Wooden Horse
The escapees consisted of 15 different nationalities Contrary to what is in the film only one American (born) prisoner, Johnnie Dodge, was involved in the escape. He moved to Canada at a young age when his mother re-married Winston Chruchill's cousin. Dodge became a British Citizen and joined the Royal Navy during WWI.
The three escapees that made it home in the film were Polish, American and Australian (or British can't remember). In reality two of the three were Norwegian and the other Dutch
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 15, 2021 17:45:48 GMT
When my father returned from three years on New Guinea and in the Philippines during WW2, his ship tied up at Brooklyn Navy Yard and the GIs trooped over to the mess hall to get some chow. Just as they walked in, a KP shift was getting off and the mess hall crew invoked their privilege to get ahead of the returnees. Inconsiderate under any circumstances but it was made worse by the fact that the KPs were not fellow GIs or even Americans. They were German POWs, or as my father referred to them when recounting the incident, "those goddam kraut bastards".
My father and his fellow GIs, perhaps coarsened by long service in the Pacific, told them to get the $#!*%! behind them. Some GIs tried to underline the point by brandishing chairs. The mess sergeant came out to determine what the ruckus was and soon enough told the Germans to shut up and get at the back of the line.
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Post by Marv on Jun 15, 2021 20:43:15 GMT
Great Escape for me. Hits all the notes.
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