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There are many great films
There is no greatest ever film
The Great Escape is a good film
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SLUDGE FACTORY
There are many great films
There is no greatest ever film
The Great Escape is a good film
Indeed, but probably just a "top ten" WWII based movie and certainly IMHO well behind the likes of Schindler's List, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Saving Private Ryan.
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Indeed, but probably just a "top ten" WWII based movie and certainly IMHO well behind the likes of Schindler's List, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Saving Private Ryan.
A Bridge Too Far
Where Eagles Dare
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It has to be up there
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One scene that stuck with me was from an old war film. Near the end of the film two soldiers had to run zig zag across fields to get to safety whilst the japs were behind shooting at them. Any idea what the film was called? :thumbup:
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My uncle was in Stalag Luff 3. Knew nothing about the tunnels until the night before the break out, and was given a slip of paper with '203' written on it - sadly, but also fortuitously the tunnel was discovered well before it was his turn.
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If you're a flag waving Brit, then yes its probably the best movie ever made
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Hardly an epic. 'Ben Hur' is an epic, or 'Spartacus'.
The Great Escape is okay for a quiet Sunday afternoon, but an epic it is not.
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One scene that stuck with me was from an old war film. Near the end of the film two soldiers had to run zig zag across fields to get to safety whilst the japs were behind shooting at them. Any idea what the film was called? :thumbup:
Too Late The Hero
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Several Hollywood backed WWII based films made at the time exaggerated the roles of American personnel in the stories, partly to give the actors a higher profile and hopefully a greater box office return.
The Great Escape being a classic example.
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Several Hollywood backed WWII based films made at the time exaggerated the roles of American personnel in the stories, partly to give the actors a higher profile and hopefully a greater box office return.
The Great Escape being a classic example.
Absolutely, Steve McQueen's role being a perfect example.
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stan butler
One scene that stuck with me was from an old war film. Near the end of the film two soldiers had to run zig zag across fields to get to safety whilst the japs were behind shooting at them. Any idea what the film was called? :thumbup:
Too Late The Hero.
Great film. Michael Caine and a yank whose name escapes me
Just seen already answered. :facepalm:
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Several Hollywood backed WWII based films made at the time exaggerated the roles of American personnel in the stories, partly to give the actors a higher profile and hopefully a greater box office return.
The Great Escape being a classic example.
In the 60s the yanks even made a series called "The Rat Patrol" about an American unit called the Desert Rats fighting Rommel in North Africa.
British TV cancelled it afer protests just a couple of episodes into its run.
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The Boat. Classic war film viewed from a German angle.
Failing that Wallace And Gromit- The Wrong Trousers.
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In the 60s the yanks even made a series called "The Rat Patrol" about an American unit called the Desert Rats fighting Rommel in North Africa.
British TV cancelled it afer protests just a couple of episodes into its run.
I remember my father jumping up and down about the ‘bloody yanks’ and their fairy stories in North Africa
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The Bloop
Several Hollywood backed WWII based films made at the time exaggerated the roles of American personnel in the stories, partly to give the actors a higher profile and hopefully a greater box office return.
The Great Escape being a classic example.
'U571' had the Americans capturing the enigma machine from a German U Boat and turning the tide of WW2.
Only they didn't.
It got high ratings from the reviewers in the USA but was panned here for re-writing history and stealing someone else's achievement.
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I’d say the Great Escape would not even get in my top 1,000 epic films.
John Wayne won the Second World War didn’t he?
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These are three of my favourite scenes scenes from three of the old style epic's also from the sixties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjmbgZ2wZvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ILqbD6XXkA&t=23s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0&t=11s
oh and of course an alternative cut of the last one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T481yh1KiY
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I remember my father jumping up and down about the ‘bloody yanks’ and their fairy stories in North Africa
My dad would but he refuses to watch them.