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  1. A-58

    A-58 Cool Dude

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    I finished watching The Forgotten Battle last night on Netflix. Not a bad movie. The story focused on three characters, a British glider pilot, a Dutch volunteer in the Wehrmacht, and a girl in the Dutch Resistance. The battle depicted is the Battle of the Scheldt. It was a well made movie with what I really liked was a close up look at glider troops and their ordeal in an assault. I don't think that I would liked to have been a glider man. It's well worth a look.

    Read all about it!

    The Forgotten Battle - Wikipedia

    Battle of the Scheldt - Wikipedia
     
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    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    Saw the Bogart original of Sahara again today. Nothing against the '90s remake, but think they were maybe a bit OTT in the caricatures,
     
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    Just finished watching Tank Force (1958). Not one of Victor Mature's best, but entertaining seeing British Cromwell tanks fighting British Chieftains with Swastikas painted on them.
     
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    USMCPrice Idiot at Large

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    My feelings exactly. The Bogart original was well done with believable characters. The remake lacked the heart, grit and realism of the original.
     
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    USMCPrice Idiot at Large

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    Thank you for the like Gordon! I thought J. Carrol Naish did an excellent job at portraying Giuseppe, a reluctant Italian soldier (he received an Oscar nomination for the role!). Rex Ingram did a great job portraying a British Sudanese Colonial soldier, long serving, disciplined, stoic, senior NCO, Sgt. Major Tambul. And of course, Bogart turns in an excellent performance. If you other rogues haven't seen this 1943 gem, it's well worth the watch.
     
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    Welcome, old boy. As always.
     
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    Started "Hacksaw Ridge" last night and plan on finishing it tonight. It's a long movie so don't start watching too long before bedtime !

    Hacksaw Ridge (2016) - IMDb
     
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    Saw "Glass Knives" the other day. Better than "Knives Out". It will be on NetFlix RSN.
     
  9. Dracula

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    I ran across this on free YOUTUBE movies. " The Great War of Archimedes," 2019. A Japanese movie about the IJN fight over building carriers vs Yamato class battleships. The special effects are outstanding and I didn't see that coming twist, at the end. Be sure to turn on English close caption.
    Ya'll be safe and Happy New Year..
     
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    I just finished watching The Thin Red Line on Comcast On Demand. I had watched it a long, long time ago and I remembered some parts but had forgotten most of the actors who played in it. But Nick Nolte I did remember and I thought he was terrific, but the acting overall was great. And the tropical birds and animals really added to the movie. I would think that it was a hard movie to make and even the Japanese actors were good. The scenes with the natives must have been challenging I would have thought. But I thoroughly enjoyed it with a great cast of actors. One of my favorite World War II movies.
     
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    Watched a comedy horror called The Boogie Man will get you, starring Peter Lorre & Boris Karloff last night. Made in 1942, there were plenty of references to the US home front, though it wasn't a war movie.
    Particularly liked the bit where a South American "anarchist" popped up and introduced himself as "a Fascist aviator who recently escaped from a prison camp in Canada", a clear reference to Oberleutnant Franz Von Werra. Must be the only contemporary reference I've ever heard.
     
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    On the TCM channel, Here Comes the Navy, 1934, with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. The real actors are in the background of the scenes. Up close and personal views of the USS Arizona, various class of cruisers, etc.
     
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    I was just watching Kelly's Heroes on Movies! Channel. It's over the air in Phoenix on 45.2. They're going to have it again this coming Friday the 7th of April, between Where Eagles Dare and Heartbreak Ridge.
     
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    American History Channel, with Comcast, World War II in color. The Pacific and European theaters. Good original footage. I watch what interests me.
     
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    I just finished watching Attack on Pearl Harbor, Minute By Minute, on NETFLIX. I had seen some of the historical footage before, but this featured four veterans of the attack plus some historians and a park ranger from Pearl. It is a three part miniseries. Just wonderful. It was made in 2021. I know there are a lot of ways to perish in a war, land, air and sea, but to listen to these veterans describe the horrors with the sailors who jumped into burning oil and had their skin come off and if they were rescued, some hospitals ran out of morphine. And some were trapped in compartments when their battleship capsized and they drowned, let alone all the ones who were in the Arizona when the bomb exploded. Some of what they described I recognized from the movie Pearl Harbor. I guess someone did some historical research. But it goes from the Japanese planning and reasons for attacking, to a minute by minute description of the attack and its aftermath. Some of this younger generation should watch this, if they had any inclination to watch and learn. Perhaps there are some. Perhaps there are some on whom it would make an impact. Perhaps. But I guess it is like one watching any old or new war footage. Some are interested and some not.
     
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    I saw that one awhile back and thoroughly enjoyed it. Normally I don’t care to get into a show with multiple episodes or a series but this one was worth it.
     
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    Watched Downfall. Probably my favourite thing about it is the expressions as people realise that their chickens are coming home to roost
     
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    Watched Downfall on the Tubi free channel. It's worth seeing.
     
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    Watched "Mr. Roberts" last week with Henry Fonda. Well not actually with Henry but it sure took me back.
    Trying to find, "Wake Me When It's Over" with Ernie Kovacs.

    www.youtube.com/watch

    Guess I'll have to set up a separate tv downstairs and figure out that streaming thing-a-ma--jig.
     
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    Hi all.
    I watched a Soviet movie called The Cranes Are Flying not long ago. It was a good movie.
    Can you recommend good Soviet films about war and people with English subtitles?
    Thanks
     

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