Author Topic: Favorite Classic Obscure War Movie? (Read 1851 times)

davidpt40 · « **Reply #45 on:** December 01, 2003, 07:44:42 PM »

Rambo Part II-

Based heavily on a true story, a lone commando goes back to Vietnam to rescue some U.S. POWS. This film is actually one of the most realistic war movies ever made.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #46 on:** December 01, 2003, 10:17:58 PM »

The original All Quiet on the Western Front.

Otto · « **Reply #47 on:** December 01, 2003, 10:46:07 PM »

A Guy Named Joe (1943)

Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson and Ward Bond.

Tracy dies bombing a 'German Aircraft Carrier' and comes back as an Angel to help new pilots.

I also seem to remember his old girlfriend (Dunne) flying a P-38 and bombing a Japanese base

SunKing · « **Reply #48 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:00:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Raubvogel
"A Midnight Clear"

About a unit in the Ardennes during Christmas 1944. They have a snowball fight with the Germans across the line. Pretty good flick.

2nd that.

Dago · « **Reply #49 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:49:48 PM »

In Harms Way

Battleground

Angels Thirteen? (eighteen?) B/W film about Battle of Britain.

dagooooooo

greentail · « **Reply #50 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:56:57 PM »

Dr. Strangelove
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lawrence of Arabia
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Gary Cooper staying behind to machinegun the fascists so Ingrid Bergman can get away, what a way to go!)
Battan (Robert Taylor, last one alive, machine guns the Japanese, is there a theme here?)
Paths of Glory
12 O'Clock High
Hell's Angels (18 year old Jean Harlow,in a memorable scene involving an extremely scanty robe, need I say more)
Beau Geste (Brian Donlevy, what a great bad guy)
Fort Apache

And an old British movie about an old open bridge destroyer at the beginning of WWII, almost a documentary film on the Royal Navy.

Lazerus · « **Reply #51 on:** December 02, 2003, 12:18:39 AM »

Platoon??

This flick, along with The Deer Hunter, affected me more than any other war movie.

Airhead · « **Reply #52 on:** December 02, 2003, 12:28:58 AM »

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Originally posted by -tronski-
The Odd Angry Shot

Tronsky

Ditto Tronsky. This is the best Viet Nam movie ever made if realism is to be considered. IMHO, of course.

Sandman · « **Reply #53 on:** December 02, 2003, 12:42:49 AM »

Hmmm... classic and obscure... okay...

The Enemy Below

Sandman · « **Reply #54 on:** December 02, 2003, 12:44:10 AM »

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Originally posted by mrblack
Firebase gloria
Full metal jacket
the green berets
Saving ryans privates

Cool... I've never heard of any of these.

wrag · « **Reply #55 on:** December 02, 2003, 03:02:53 AM »

Hmmm..

I think Cross of Iron was one of my favs for years.

Does anyone remember "They were Expendable"? Think that was the name. Was about PT boats?

Then there is that Boggie classic with the Tank in the desert keeping the Germans from the well.

I also seem to remember a movie that took place after the war. It was about a Panzer II or was it a III that someone found with a dead crew and it had valuable gems in it and a bunch of Arabs tryin to shoot it or somethin. Was very young so don't remember allot about it.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #56 on:** December 02, 2003, 03:14:00 AM »

Not exactly war movie but post-war one.

"On the beach" still gives me the chills.

Daniel

Gixer · « **Reply #57 on:** December 02, 2003, 03:26:31 AM »

The Beast (aka The Beast Of War)

~~...-Gixer~~

Sparks · « **Reply #58 on:** December 02, 2003, 05:03:07 AM »

Theres a lot here I need to watch

Whats the one, I think it had Lee Marvin in it (terrible memory), which finishes with the guy dragging a torpedo off the beach and dropping it from his crane on the back of the barge onto the disabled submerged U-boat ??

Sparks

mora · « **Reply #59 on:** December 02, 2003, 05:14:43 AM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Finally found that the answer to my original question might be not a film but a television series: Heimat #1, color and b&w, 924 minutes on nine VHS tapes, available from the German Language Video Center in Indianapolis, Indiana (1-317-547-1257).

This is the 16-hour story of a German family (the Simons) from the end of WWI to 1982. It was shown on PBS, sponsored by WGBH in Boston.

Apparently it was the ending of one of the shows that impressed me so much. Not so much, however, that I'm willing to shell out a buncha geld for all those VHS tapes (would consider less expensive DVDs if they ever become available).

This ring a bell with any of you? Ever recall seeing parts of it?

Other potentially interesting German WWII films are Mein Kreig, I Was 19, The Damned, and the three-part 08/15 (named for a gun that often malfunctioned). I haven't seen any of these but the descriptions sound interesting.

I've seen Heimat about 10 years ago. Excellent series, very funny and tragic.