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Hornblower -> What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 6:42:11 AM)


What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ??
the ANTI- movie we can't mention thread...



cyberwop36 -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 6:56:33 AM)

"In Harms Way"

Go Bears



stuman -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 7:03:33 AM)

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.



m10bob -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 10:03:19 AM)

Guadalcanal Diary based on the book by Richard Tregaskis, a very young journalist who went ashore with the Gyrenes as it happened.....A true classic of the era which avoided most of the propaganda.



Flying Tiger -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 10:16:58 AM)

I like the old 'Battle of Britain'. Although you do get sick of the same footage from 4 different cameras.

oh, that was probably after 1950 anyway!!



sprior -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 10:21:58 AM)

Went the Day Well?



anarchyintheuk -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 3:41:04 PM)

All Quiet on the Western Front. That may be before '38 tho.



HMS Resolution -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 4:07:00 PM)

I'm quite partial to The Spitfire Story, aka The First of the Few.



anarchyintheuk -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 4:14:02 PM)

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!



bobogoboom -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 4:22:41 PM)


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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

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.



bobogoboom -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 4:23:48 PM)

funny side not to that they had johnny quest the old cartoon on last night and they were still refering to the indonesia as the dei and using all the old names. it just sounded weird.



DivePac88 -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 4:50:25 PM)

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”.

(Sorry, waiting for AE, and getting bored) [sm=sign0006.gif]



mdiehl -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 5:25:37 PM)

Any war?

Fort Apache

WW2?

Sands of Iwo Jima



rockmedic109 -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 7:25:32 PM)

I'd say Sink the Bismark, but I think that was late 50s/early 60s.



TOMLABEL -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 7:32:35 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: stuman

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.



RUPD3658 -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 7:50:09 PM)


quote:

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”.

(Sorry, waiting for AE, and getting bored) [sm=sign0006.gif]




And the response from Dr Smith: "Oh the pain...the pain"[:D]



jmscho -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 7:54:11 PM)

"Ice Cold in Alex" gets my vote.



CaptDave -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 7:56:21 PM)

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.



tocaff -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 8:25:09 PM)

They were all so corny from that time period.  I remember seeing so many of them when I was a kid on Saturday mornings.  John Wanye, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Wiiliam Bendix, Humphrey Bogart to name slightly more than a few.  A favorite?  Hmmmm......How about 30 seconds over Tokyo, was it made after 1950 though?



OldCoot -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 10:11:25 PM)

My two favorites were released in 1953

"From Here to Eternity"
"The Cruel Sea"

Eternity by James Jones has to be the best book ever written about the pre WW2 brown shoe army.



sadja -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/23/2009 10:38:59 PM)

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.



wgs_explorer -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 1:44:05 AM)

I always liked the Dam Busters.



wgs_explorer -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 1:44:50 AM)

Another is Sink the Bismarck.



thegreatwent -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 2:20:29 AM)

Run Silent Run Deep (1958) is one of my all time favorites.



AW1Steve -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 4:04:23 AM)

12 O'clock high and the San Pebbles.



thegreatwent -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 6:13:00 AM)

The Sand Pebbles is good but the ending is tough to watch, glad to see it finally came out on DVD.



JeffroK -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 7:23:39 AM)

Saw "Assignment in Brittany (1943)" this morning, apart from the abysmal acting and shoddy FX it was a goo yarn.

Being from its era, the enemy soldiers were not handled in a PC way, couple of slit throats, lots of bayonets!!!



Brady -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 8:30:46 AM)


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.



Panther Bait -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 1:28:16 PM)

I always liked The Dawn Patrol (1938 Errol Flynn version, never saw the 1930 original)




gladiatt -> RE: What is the best old school war flick 1938-1950 ?? (6/24/2009 1:30:43 PM)


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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