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Post by neurosturgeon on Dec 8, 2017 22:15:26 GMT
Does anyone have a screen shot of Rick writing the date on the check or receipt in "Casablanca?" I think the date was something like December 2, 1941, But I am not certain. It has been a while since I have been able to see the film.
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Post by northern on Dec 8, 2017 22:27:44 GMT
I have an admittedly vague memory of seeing WWII B-movies which were actually made during that conflict. They were aired on a TV program called THE EARLY SHOW which ran on weekday afternoons. They definitely were not classics like CASABLANCA; I think they were mostly propaganda that would not pass muster with today's PC, especially in their stereotyped characterizations of Japanese soldiers. Trouble is, I can't remember the titles of these movies or who starred in them. Can somebody help me here? And are they available on DVD? Mrs.Miniver (1942). |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 8, 2017 22:45:00 GMT
I'll take just about any of these movies over absurd stuff like "Fury" 2014.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 9, 2017 1:46:28 GMT
neurosturgeon I have the Anobile book on Casablanca. No memory of the check writing scene so more info needed please. I shall look it up and get back to you, asap, stat... well as fast as I can anyhoo!
Edit #1 OK Dokey then .... Of course I started at the back of the book BUT way up on page 31 there is a nice close up of an IOU type slip dated "2 Decembre '41 "
Edit #2 Did a Google Image search and no screenshot (yet). Innumerable viewings and never noticed that date ! or this guy 
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Post by neurosturgeon on Dec 9, 2017 3:01:45 GMT
Bat - Thanks for the date off the IOU from "Casablanca." That is the date that I thought it was.
And I love Ca(p)t. Renault. He reminds me of one of my cats of the past, Pasquale aka Wally.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 9, 2017 3:07:13 GMT
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Post by neurosturgeon on Dec 9, 2017 3:10:12 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 9, 2017 3:13:30 GMT
neurosturgeonThat site at the link looks like a fun place to explore !
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Post by Richard Kimble on Dec 9, 2017 7:51:19 GMT
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. IIRC in Passage To Marseiile Humphrey Bogart is seen machine-gunning a planeload of surrendering Germans Which ensured he would die in the end, as under the production code such an act could not go unpunished, even in wartime |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Dec 9, 2017 7:59:17 GMT
One of the less-sensationalized war films of the period:  |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 9, 2017 17:38:00 GMT
Living in a country that was so called neutral during WW2 (I'm not old enough to have lived through it though), my mother told me that at night they could here when they bombed Copenhagen.  1942, a movie that somehow went by th cencorship, it plays out in historical times, but tells a story of a foreign power taking over. Rid i Natt or Ride Tonight During WW2 many Danish and Norweigian movies was made in Sweden, since many was jewish sometimes fled in questionable boats, one of tyhe survivours of such a boat ride was Victor Borge, later a well known entertainer. Danish beauty Marguerite Viby, and she was beautiful, and according to some the only bright spot during the dark days of Denmark during the Nazi occupation. |
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 9, 2017 18:01:33 GMT
Along with EDGE OF DARKNESS -- two more wartime films about the occupation of Norway, and firmly establishing the name of 'Quisling' as one who sells out his country:
THE MOON IS DOWN -- based on the John Steinbeck novel.
COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN -- with Paul Muni leading the charge.
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So much for Norway. Moving on to Russia:
COUNTER-ATTACK -- Muni again, this time a Russian guerrilla fighter holded up in a bombed-out cellar with a bunch of German soldiers.
DAYS OF GLORY -- Gregory Peck's film debut as a Russian freedom fighter.
SONG OF RUSSIA -- Robert Taylor's American symphony conductor entertaining the Soviets when the Blitzkrieg starts in June 1941.
MISSION TO MOSCOW -- Walter Huston as the American ambassador being friendly with all the Russian bigwigs.
THE NORTH STAR -- Huston's clean old peasant village doctor joining townsfolk in pushing back German invaders (Erich Von Stroheim among them).
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All those wartime Pro-Soviet films were later attacked by postwar HUAC investigating Communist influence in American motion pictures.
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Post by kijii on Dec 9, 2017 18:11:11 GMT
I've never heard the term before, but it's nice to have yet another term to apply to Trump.  --------------------------------- Now what about movies that were made before Pearl Harbor? Foreign Correspondent (1940) |
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 9, 2017 18:20:05 GMT
Edward Dmytryk among them. He once said that the US government asked him to make a movie showing Russia's contribution to the war, and so he did.
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Post by kijii on Dec 9, 2017 18:29:47 GMT
What? Robert Taylor made a movie about associating with Communists----before HUAC? I am shocked, shocked... 
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 9, 2017 18:32:46 GMT
I've never heard the term before, but it's nice to have yet another term to apply to Trump. Now what about movies that were made before Pearl Harbor? Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Last Train From Madrid
Three Comrades
Blockade
The Lady Vanishes
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
The Fighting 69th
Four Sons
The Mortal Storm
Foreigh Correspondent
The Great Dictator
Escape
I Wanted Wings
That Hamilton Woman
Man Hunt
Caught in the Draft
Sergeant York
Dive Bomber
A Yank in the RAF |
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 9, 2017 18:33:39 GMT
What? Robert Taylor made a movie about associating with Communists----before HUAC? I am shocked, shocked... And Bob testified about that before the committee, Kijii. |
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 9, 2017 18:43:51 GMT
Another WW2 film set in Norway is The Heroes of Telemark (1965). I mention it here even though it was made well after the war because it stars birthday boy Kirk Douglas, who is now 101.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 9, 2017 18:56:50 GMT
There was an extremely popular wartime children's novel set in Norway called Snow Treasure. It recounted the story of children helping smuggle the nation's gold supply out of German reach. We read it in school in the mid-60s. I see it was and into a movie in 1968.  |
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Post by snsurone on Dec 9, 2017 21:35:19 GMT
One movie I do remember is EAGLE SQUADRON, starring Robert Stack and Diana Barrymore.
I remember watching it while recovering from a severe case of bronchitis.
I hate that movie for this reason: the squadron's mascot was a tiny kitten that was killed in a battle scene.
As an animal lover, I cried over that scene.
But here's another one that really throws me:
It's about some American GI's and a Russian woman who are being held captive in an underground mine shaft (or maybe it was a bunker) by German soldiers.
They are rescued when the troop's pet German shepherd dug through the roof of their prison, and the debris killed the bad guys.
The woman was wounded, but it looked like she would recover.
Dammit, it's been almost 60 years since I saw that movie, and for the life of me, I can't remember the title or any more details than what I described.
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