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July 12th, 2003, 09:48 AM
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Carlsberg?
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July 12th, 2003, 10:01 AM
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Well, I'm gobsmacked ! First posting on the Forum and PeterJ gets it right in one !! 
Carlsberg it was - the scene was revived 30 years later as a TV ad.
Welcome to the forums - and over to you for the next War Movie question......
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July 12th, 2003, 12:52 PM
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Thanks very much for the welcome Martin.
I am sadly more knowledgeable on beer than WWII movie trivia, so here's an easy one.
Who was the only actor in A Bridge Too Far to have actually been present at Arnhem (although observing from the South bank) and also to have once known the person he portrayed?
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July 12th, 2003, 02:05 PM
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Dirk Bogarde ?
' I served not under Browning but with him in Normandy and here in Arnhem and I really only saw him occasionally...' ( from 'The Story Of A Bridge Too Far' )
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July 12th, 2003, 04:08 PM
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Correct.
Apparently he served with the Parachute Regiment on Montgomery's intelligence staff. He received much criticism of his portrayal of Browning, but he said he had known the man and it was all true.
Over to you Martin.
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July 12th, 2003, 05:59 PM
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Thanks, Peter - do stick around, browse through the Forum and join in wherever you want to !
OK, next question - 'Krebs', who 'brings up the Kraut staff car' in 'The Bridge At Remagen' (1968) went on to become one of Sam Peckinpah's regular 'stock' actors. He was.....? 
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July 12th, 2003, 06:43 PM
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Good try, Bill, but...no. 
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Hey everyone, Bo Hopkins is Krebs
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July 12th, 2003, 09:21 PM
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The excellent Bo Hopkins it was indeed...over to you, Steve !
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July 12th, 2003, 10:02 PM
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Rats--I was getting Krebs mixed up with Angel. And I just saw this again a few weeks ago 
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July 13th, 2003, 05:05 PM
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Okay guys, This 1970 war picture won a total of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. What was it and who did the screen story and screenplay?
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July 13th, 2003, 06:18 PM
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Patton, written by Edmund H North screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola ?
( It was also 'loosely based on' parts of 'Patton : Ordeal & Triumph' by Ladislas Farago and 'A Soldier's Story' by Omar N Bradley ).
[ 13. July 2003, 01:21 PM: Message edited by: Martin Bull ]
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July 13th, 2003, 08:04 PM
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Yes indeed. Over to you Martin.
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'The Dam Busters' - the final briefing scene. The briefing room door is closed and Guy Gibson's dog can't get in.
The dog is turned away by the RAF policeman guarding the door. The RAF man is played by an actor who later became very famous - if not notorious - in connection with a 60s cult TV series.
Who was he ?
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July 13th, 2003, 10:11 PM
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HI MArtin, is it Colin Tapley?
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No. Clue : he was born in the USA.
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That's it, Kai - well done ! ( I thought nobody would get this one... )
It's all yours !
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July 14th, 2003, 08:57 PM
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Martin--good thing you didn't ask someone to name that dog
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That would be too easy - who could forget the famous Nigger! 
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LoL, see Carl, why would that have been so bad? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Gorgeous Dog. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Reminds me of an English Shepard I once had--VERY smart and loyal dog. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Oh and in ALL seriousness--the dog had that name as well as that name/word/term--was used when announcing the destruction of the dams on that famous mission. Or so was said in that Doc on the History Channel. [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/vc.gif[/img]
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Well, while I’m not exactly a ‘dog person’, we had a black Labrador when I was a child and that dog was friendly, patient and a great playmate for a youngster. No, he wasn’t called Nigger, he was Blackie.
Re the Nigger comment Carl during the Dam Busters Raid, you sure that wasn’t when they missed the dam? 
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