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What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 6:42:11 AM   
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What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ??
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 6:56:33 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 7:03:33 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 10:03:19 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 10:16:58 AM   
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oh, that was probably after 1950 anyway!!

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 10:21:58 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 3:41:04 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 4:07:00 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 4:14:02 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 4:22:41 PM   
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Loved Sands of Iwo Jima, although it would have been a better ending if John Agar had been shot. To be sensitive to the displaced islanders I will now refer to it as Sands of Iwo To. Doesn't have quite the ring to it. Neither does Objective, Myanmar!

it's burma.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 4:23:48 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 4:50:25 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 5:25:37 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 7:25:32 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 7:32:35 PM   
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If you mean movies that came out during that period, then my favorites are They Were Expendable, 12 O'Clock High, Command Decision and Battleground.


Yea, my favorites too. Especially TWE and Battleground. I also like Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo with Van Johnson.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 7:50:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: DivePac88

My favorite scene from an old WW2 movie is from ‘Lost in Space’, when the Robot starts waving his arms at Will, and says “Danger… danger Will Robertson, I detect KB on the horizon”.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 7:54:11 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 7:56:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'll admit I haven't seen as many made in that period as many of you, so my selection pool is limited. Given that qualifier, I'd say my favorite war movie from the period is definitely Twelve O'Clock High. If you'll consider a war movie that isn't a war movie but is a war movie, then the vote goes to Casablanca.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 8:25:09 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 10:11:25 PM   
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"From Here to Eternity"
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Eternity by James Jones has to be the best book ever written about the pre WW2 brown shoe army.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/23/2009 10:38:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		All throught the war years many movies were made about the different groups of soldiers, sailors, airmen and such. My favoirites were Battle for the North Atlantic featuring Humphrey Bogart. About the merchant marine and navy armed guard. My Dad was naval armed guard on a Tanker running alone in the mid and south Atlantic, and a Liberty ship in the Pacific. The other was Objective Burma. I was in the 2nd Ranger Bn. in the 80's and we took our linege from the 4077th "Merrills Maurders". The realism detail in the begining is spot on. You can take todays ranger manual from warning order through jump and it was portrayed almost perfect if a little abreveated. the jump comands were the same in the movie as they were at Benning in 1979.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 1:44:05 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 1:44:50 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 2:20:29 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 4:04:23 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 6:13:00 AM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 7:23:39 AM   
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Being from its era, the enemy soldiers were not handled in a PC way, couple of slit throats, lots of bayonets!!!

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 8:30:46 AM   
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Ice Cold in Alex, is a favorate of mine as well.

Sahara, is another favorate of mine, along with Dambusters, as noted above many of the US films from that eara are very cheasy, Sahara is but its good fun, Ice Cold in Alex though is likely my Favorate.

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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 1:28:16 PM   
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RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? - 6/24/2009 1:30:43 PM   
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Guys, i am asking to those with a long memory.
YYYYears ago, when i was a kid, i saw a film about a ground battle in pacific.
In my memorie it really was great. But i can't find wich one it is: it is not "Leatherneck" with John Wayne, and it is not the one about Okinawa with Richard Widmark; it's not Merryl Marauder with Eroll Flynn either.

I remenber there was a scene where a young GI in a outpost let his wounded buddy to search for help, and run like a mad in the jungle in the night, crossing a jap patrol.
Does it raise something in somebody's memory ???

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