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Excellent number 9..thats my evening taken care of...Im getting on wifes nerves anyway...sprained knee...leg up on chair..get me some coffee woman..Ive got sites to visit...Works every time..
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Mon pleasure! [img]smile.gif[/img] Is an evening enough? I find I look at a cast list, spot an actor I'd forgotten, then start digging-up other films they've been in, then spot another actor in the cast, then......
I'm sure we can find more to add. Whether or not they're worth mentioning? 
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One immediately comes to mind - similar 'documentary style' to San Demetrio - and that's ' Western Approaches ' . Notable because it used no professional actors ; they were all serving Merchant Seamen.
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Mon pleasure! [img]smile.gif[/img] Is an evening enough? I find I look at a cast list, spot an actor I'd forgotten, then start digging-up other films they've been in, then spot another actor in the cast, then......
I'm sure we can find more to add. Whether or not they're worth mentioning?
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Your right...Ill never finish it..Going to try though..Just been through some of my fave ones...and thinking as I looked at em..bet hes forgotten one..didnt look too hard just kept reading...going back to a lot later..then damit..it was there...The Hill....superb.
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April 9th, 2003, 10:35 PM
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Great thread--many of my favorites are here.
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Thank you gentlemen, we'll winkle 'em all out eventually. The good, the bad and the John MacEnroe's.
Thank's for 'Western Approaches' Martin. Now added with quite a good link.
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April 21st, 2003, 01:17 AM
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More additions including some comedies.
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April 21st, 2003, 09:42 AM
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Damn....I thought when you said some comedies..you were going to start including some USA stuff like Peal Harbor.. ....I'll leave the room quickly...
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April 21st, 2003, 10:12 PM
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Well--from your list--ive seen 21 of them--some are my absolute favs--like: Where Eagles Dare, Dunkirk, The Password is Courage, Battle of Britain and The Heros of Telemark for examples.
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That is an excellent list No.9. It did make me think of why the British have not made any movies of the Falklands War. If they have I missed seeing it promoted anywhere. Seems like it would be a good subject for a film to me.
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TA, there was an excellent, in my view, drama based on the initial invasion and the naval party and governors fight around Stanley and govt house...by the BBC...
With much emphasis on Brit forces sense of humour and typical Brit stiff upper lip stuff from the governor which really I suppose he did display...
"Im not surrendering to any bloody Argies..."
small Naval pary in local drill hall...knowing invasion forces outnmumber them and thinking casualties would be high...."Time to earn our money"...
Dont know if BBC put it up for sale, but Ill try and find name and let you know..The action scenes are pretty good.
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Thanks URGH. I would like to see something done on the Falklands on film. I have a book on the airwar but it was just mediocre for information and pictures.
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An Ungentlemanly Act...Just found the tape and got me watching it again now..cheers..anniversary of invasion this month by the way.
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Thank you for your sentiment TA152, and I agree there is a film or two there. However, I would say overall the ‘message’ whispered down the line from Whitehall was not to crow about the matter or rub Argentina’s nose in it. All in the interests of restoring relations thereafter.
There’s the drama urqh mentions and there have been a number of documentaries and programmes dealing with Simon Weston who emerged as a figurehead casualty.
There’s also Tumbledown, but this is not the ‘kick-ass’ type film that Hollywood would have turned out.
The conflict was, accurately, the Battle for the Falklands, as opposed to Britain v Argentina. If the latter were the case, we would have attacked Argentina with a view to conquering it etc. Equally Argentina would have attacked Britain. Quite how this would have been done I don’t know? But obviously we could have mounted missile strikes.
If you make a war film it’s going to get shown here and in Argentina, and people will see scenes of friends and family dying, it can’t be avoided. The filmmaker is then going to have to decide how this is portrayed. If everyone is neatly killed unavoidably and at a distance, it’s going to be nonsense. Then again, if they delve into accuracy, there’s going to be a lot of lawsuits flying about an a lot of enraged MP’s and newspaper campaigns. A friend of a friend was an officer on the Sir Galahad when it was hit with the troops still on board. What went on, I understand, and the official sequence of events do not quite coincide. But that’s all that can be said on the subject.
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Fuss??? As evidenced with some parts of the British media when Tumbledown was released...The news papers got the order from above it would seem and the degeneration of that dramamentuary..was ridiculously over the top....
Suddenly it was unpatriotic to question, even if you were wounded or family.
On Simon Weston 9...I was with him in Chessington remedial centre over a period of time..And I can assure everyone..what you see is what you get with that guy...
We were actually told by staff sgt in remidial gym, that this badly injured guy was coming in, and we were not to engage him in banter ete, let him get to know us quitely, and not to stare etc...
We all working away on our treatments...in he walks...and sorry but bollocks..he was welcomed as any other injured guy..playing cards within and hour...hands were pretty bad...still had gauze or some sort of dressings he had done every day hanging off what didnt look like hands..Managed to play though with help...All went quiet for a few secs though when he swore, and said he was throwing his hand in...Meant the cards...but think we all got the message.
When it came time for victory parade in Guildhall..all 6 gyms were given afternoon off..all round tvs in barrack type wards..not hospital type..watching the parade and meal with Maggie...Only she forgot something....like the Falklands wounded guys that were all in Chessington that were not invited at that time..and bloody angry they were too.
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Hijacked your thread now 9, sorry, one last thing from me on Falklands..
http://radio.weblogs.com/0114370/
Read from bottome upwards...Also a good link to sama, south atlantic medal association on that site...with an equally good rememberance site included to dead.
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I had kinda wondered if you guys in the U.K. had ever made any movies about the Falklands too--thanks for the ones listed.
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