Author Topic: War Movies of the 60's and 50's (Read 1144 times)

Sandman · « **Reply #45 on:** August 14, 2002, 09:38:04 PM »

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Originally posted by whgates3
i thought that was the califonia desert - is "The Longest Day" (1962) on anyone's list yet?

Yep... called that one already.

Gyro/T69 · « **Reply #46 on:** August 14, 2002, 09:59:59 PM »

One not made in the 60's that was worth the price of a ticket was Cross of Iron by Sam Peckinpah. With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason. Great Russian front movie. Right up there with Private Ryan for realism. Outstanding hand to hand bunker sequence. Had some T-34's in it.

Gy

-tronski- · « **Reply #47 on:** August 15, 2002, 08:49:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Gyro/T69
One not made in the 60's that was worth the price of a ticket was Cross of Iron by Sam Peckinpah. With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason. Great Russian front movie. Right up there with Private Ryan for realism. Outstanding hand to hand bunker sequence. Had some T-34's in it.

Gy

Called that already

Tronsky

Charon · « **Reply #48 on:** August 15, 2002, 09:06:19 AM »

Anybody remember: The Bedford Incident

Good movie, great book. If you liked Fail Safe, you'll like this one.

My all time favorite would be Bridge Over the River Kwai. Good book (more accurate than the movie) but perhaps a better movie in the end.

Charon

Mighty1 · « **Reply #49 on:** August 15, 2002, 04:45:41 PM »

To Hell and Back is one of my all time favorite movies. The next would be the Battle of the Bulge. I wish I could find them on DVD.

whgates3 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 16, 2002, 01:25:59 AM »

if the 30 years war counts, i think "Potlak" (the deluge) should be on the list - a fantastic epic film, one of my all-time favorites & possibly the only good movie to come out of the warsaw pact post Eisenstein (other that "the Firemen's Ball", which may have been pre communism)