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Offline Boroda

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« Reply #30 on: August 13, 2002, 05:51:58 PM »
Anton, I am ashamed, but I didn't see "Letyat zhuravli"...

BTW, if you want old-time Soviet movies and TV series - check http://www.ruvideo.com and especially the forum there. Now I DL "Dive-bomber chronicles" and "Tractorists" (hehe I love Nikolay Kryuchkov :)). They have "17 moments" in Divx there, also "The meeting place can't be changed" (you probably didn't see that one - it was out in 1979), even pathetic stuff like "The hot snow" gets captured from sattelite and "released" there.

Hehe, in fact I don't buy VHS tapes any more. Only Divx movies from exchange networks or CD bazars.

Leonid told me he sent you a copy of Zvezda. Did you see it? What is your impression?
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Offline MrBill

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« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2002, 06:03:09 PM »
Hell is for Heroes
Hell in the Pacific
No Man is an Island
Never so Few
Porkchop Hill
The Lost Battalion

The list goes on and on.
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Offline Red Ant

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« Reply #32 on: August 13, 2002, 06:13:16 PM »
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Leonid told me he sent you a copy of Zvezda. Did you see it? What is your impression?


If he sent it, i didn't get it :(
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« Reply #33 on: August 13, 2002, 06:33:18 PM »
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If he sent it, i didn't get it :(


My fault, I think it wasn't you... Now the only thing I can do to correct my mistake is to ask for your mail adress.

I didn't see Zvezda myself, but it's the first "full-scale" war movie since Soviet times. Already labeled as "Soviet propaganda" at some film festivals. I have read Emil Kazakevich's novel when I was a child, and it doesn't have anything common with propaganda...
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #34 on: August 13, 2002, 10:03:38 PM »
Bridge over the River Kwai ( I still whistle the theme song when doing the 'honey do' list)
30 Seconds over Tokyo ...great propoganda film.
Mr Rodgers (WHERE"S MY GAWDAMNED PALM TREE!)
Bridges at Toko Ri (gawd.. this one still rips me up)
..and an old B&W about the Marines and the battle for Wake Island, title forgotten, but also a great propoganda film.

and a sleeper.. The Mouse that Roared.

..and the one Peter Sellers vehicle that will without doubt be examined by our our great-great-great grandchildren with much enthisiasm, Dr Strangelove.
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Offline lord dolf vader

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« Reply #35 on: August 13, 2002, 10:10:38 PM »
during the gulf war on my ship they played "Mr Roberts" over and over on the shipwide cable .  like any movie and then MR roberts then another movie and then mr roberts again . noone to my knowlege ever complained.  we had the dang thing memorized . i can still do the accent of the alabama dude telling what the crew did (or destroyed) on liberty  .

p.s. we were at sea 63  strait days .
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Offline Mathman

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« Reply #36 on: August 13, 2002, 10:17:31 PM »
Excellent!!!

This is what I hoped would happen with this thread!

Mr Roberts, god that movie is one of my all-time favorites.  Marbles in the captains overhead!

Hell in the Pacific, Dirty Dozen, all of em are great!
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Offline whgates3

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« Reply #37 on: August 13, 2002, 10:24:17 PM »
the combat scenes in "the Blue Max" are the best WWI air combat i've ever seen in a movie - the look on the face of the RFC 2-seater pilot is amazing - does "the Good, the Bad & the Ugly" count - there was a long Civil War sequence...

this is a useful list:
http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm
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Offline Leslie

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« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2002, 04:18:54 AM »
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What was the one where the japanes and american MIA's are stranded on an Island and they keep capturing and recapturing eachother ?


"Hell in in the Pacific", with Frank Sinatra and Cliff Robertson.  The Japanese and Americans formed a temporary truce, then battled it out in the end.

Sorry Samm...that isn't the one.  Now I can't remember the title.:o

Les


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Offline -tronski-

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« Reply #39 on: August 14, 2002, 04:21:06 AM »
The Dambusters (1954)
The Hunters (1958)
12 O'Clock High (1949)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
The Desert Rats (1954)
Mr Roberts (1955)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Zulu (1964)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
The War Lover (1962)
Paths of Glory (1957)

Not strictly "war" films:

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Fail-Safe (1964)

and...

The Wild Geese (1978)
Cross of Iron (1976)

 Tronsky
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« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2002, 04:28:55 AM »
I'm sure I'm preaching to the chior,

But check out Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas. (1957) He could have shot it in color, but the B&W gore is so much more effective. Heart wrenching trench war madness.

M*A*S*H was released in 1970, but has sixties written all over it. I remember how blown away I was when I 1st saw this one.

Donald Sutherland is one of my favs.  Johnny Got His Gun  is the most frightening war movie I can remember. His Jesus, as an engineer of a train to glory, is unforgettable.

Peter O'Toole in 66's Night of the Generals is an off-beat gem. Lawrence of Arabia is my favorite Lean movie though.

Richard Burton leads a ragged patrol against Rommel in 1953's The Desert Rats . James Mason gives real humanity to his Desert Fox character.

1969's Secret of Santa Vittoria isn't a war movie in the traditional sense either. Anthony Quinn leads his Italian village in an effort to hide their wine from the Germans. Worthy cause :)

The Ipcress File in 1965 is a clever, well made cold war spy flick. Michael Caine is killer as a secret agent who isn't a super hero, just a soldier without a uniform. Check it out.

The Sand Pebbles (1966), was a great book, and a epic movie. Steve McQueen leads an all star cast on a gunboat in China. Full of great scenes, never get off the boat. ;)

(Whoops) Almost forgot my favorite wwii buff movie, 1964's 633 Squadron . Thrilling mossie action against a heavy water factory guarded like the deathstar! :D  Stay on target...
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Offline Leslie

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« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2002, 04:30:15 AM »
Hangtime, I think "Wake Island" was made in 1942 not long after the actual battle.

"The Train" is a four star movie about Nazies using a train to steal French art treasures.  Burt Lancaster is the train engineer in this one.

"Hells Angles", by Howard Hughes, is one of the best of the old war movies imo.  It's one of those movies that show the bombs dropping all the way to target.  Pretty cool.:)

Les
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« Reply #42 on: August 14, 2002, 04:38:15 AM »
Oh...just thought about "Sahara", with Humphry Bogart;  how could I forget that one?
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« Reply #43 on: August 14, 2002, 05:04:45 AM »
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Good call on Battle of the Bulge...


Ahh..yes good old Battle of the Bulge

with the epic tank battle set in the frozen tundra of the Ardennes...
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« Reply #44 on: August 14, 2002, 09:26:58 PM »
i thought that was the califonia desert - is "The Longest Day" (1962) on anyone's list yet?
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