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Offline pembquist

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Best low budget war movie
« on: April 09, 2013, 01:32:05 AM »
[url]http://youtu.be/uQsGHslcZzo[/url

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Came across this and what's weird is I remembered it being black and white which is wrong.  Makes you wonder about eyewitness testimony.

Acting is not superb, writing is a little cliche'd but once you let yourself go it's pretty much got you.  Probably not for younger viewers as there is no cg or overwhelming jump cuts, slo mo, massive explosions or gore fetish.  Nore is there a tedious over wrought sound track. Remember too that this was made years before the "Blair Witch Project" and found footage was not hackneyed like today.
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Offline Scherf

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2013, 02:37:36 AM »
Try "Die Bruecke", old German B&W post-war film. IIRC it's on youtube in its entirety, with subtitles.
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Offline Lab Rat 3947

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2013, 03:00:31 AM »
Check out "The Steel Helmet".
Directed by Sam Fuller (The Big Red One)
Its about Korea. Filmed in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, near the observatory. Stars Gene Evans.
There is an amusing anecdote about how Gene got the lead part of Sargeant Zack.

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P.S. I found a copy of "The Big Red One - The Reconstruction" that was put together by his friends from deleted footage. They added over 40 minutes back into the movie trying to fulfill his vision. Sam Fuller does a cameo in it,as a combat cameraman, using the same camera he used in WW2.
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2013, 06:30:58 AM »
Hell is for Heros..

Hollywood film, but low budget.. With lots of Unknown Superstars in it!

Early Steve McQueen as Reese! Outstanding!
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2013, 11:58:58 AM »
Thanks for the recommendations.  Up until a  couple years ago I had this memory of a Korean War picture that I saw the first 15 minutes of on TV as a kid in the 70's.  Lone survivor of a massacre crawling past his dead comrades with his hands tied behind his back, little kid, guys posing as priests or something being the enemy.  Took me until a couple years ago to see the whole picture and put a name to it.  Steel Helmet.  "Griffith Park, 10 days" now that was a movie director.   :salute Sam Fuller
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Offline 63tb

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2013, 02:39:02 PM »
Check out "Attack!" (1956)

Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, and a bunch of others you've seen before. It's a great story, and Eddie Albert's performance is amazing. And well, Jack Palance is JACK PALANCE!

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2013, 03:17:53 PM »
Yes Jack Palance :old:

Awesome :old:

Even he would defeat my Typhoon in a 109 with no wings and guns :old:
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2013, 06:14:36 PM »

Decision Before Dawn- 1951- German POW's sent back behind the lines as Allied spies. Received 2 Oscar nominations.
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2013, 07:24:34 PM »
Quote from: 63tb on April 09, 2013, 02:39:02 PM
Check out "Attack!" (1956)

Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, and a bunch of others you've seen before. It's a great story, and Eddie Albert's performance is amazing. And well, Jack Palance is JACK PALANCE!

63tb

Is that the one where Eddie Albert is a  drunk, cowardly officer and Jack Palance is sent on a mission involving some tank and he gets run over and then comes back to confront Eddie Albert?

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2013, 07:28:52 PM »
Ack I believe you are correct.
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2013, 09:22:24 PM »
Yup, that's the one.

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« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2013, 09:57:27 PM »
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2013, 11:00:20 PM »
Also, "The Misfit Brigade" from 1987. Excellent low budget war film, based on Sven Hassel's "Wheels of Terror".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvoMn9qMO0
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2013, 11:04:46 PM »
Also check out "a Walk in the Sun"
It's about the Salerno landing and taking a farmhouse.
They use a P51 for a 109 in the beginning. And you get to see a low flight of 4 - P38s as well  :x

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2013, 05:38:37 AM »
Does "Plan 9 From Outer Space" count?
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