You Say You Want War Flicks?
I’ll give you war flicks.
TCM – Memorial Day War Movie Marathon: 39-Film Salute
Including!: The Bridge on the River Kwai (seen it), The Dirty Dozen (seen it), Kapo (ain’t seen it), Command Decision (ain’t seen it), Cornered (ain’t seen it), The Horse Soldiers (ain’t seen it), Shenandoah (ain’t seen it), Men of the Fighting Lady (ain’t seen it), To Hell and Back (ain’t seen it), Sergeant York (ain’t seen it), They Were Expendable (ain’t seen it), Where Eagles Dare (ain’t seen it), The Bridge at Remagen (ain’t seen it), The Fighting 69th (ain’t seen it), Flying Fortress (ain’t seen it), Kings Go Forth (ain’t seen it), Flight Command (ain’t seen it), Call Out the Marines (ain’t seen it), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (ain’t seen it), Dive Bomber (ain’t seen it), Hell is for Heroes (ain’t seen it), Blood on the Sun (ain’t seen it), Run Silent, Run Deep (seen it), Tell it to the Marines (ain’t seen it), Destination Tokyo (ain’t seen it), Take the High Ground (ain’t seen it), A Guy Named Joe (ain’t seen it), So Proudly We Hail (ain’t seen it), The Story of G.I. Joe (ain’t seen it), Battleground (ain’t seen it), Kelly’s Heroes (ain’t seen it), Is Paris Burning? (ain’t seen it), Patton (seen it), A Bridge Too Far (ain’t seen it), George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (ain’t seen it), God Is My Co-Pilot (ain’t seen it), Behind the Rising Sun (ain’t seen it).
I need to see more war flicks. Lucky for me, eh?
May 16th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
12 O’Clock High was pretty good too. Also a movie with Steve McQueen, that wasn’t The Great Escape, and probably one nobody ever heard of: The War Lover “Steve McQueen is Buzz Rickson, a B17 pilot during WWII. Rickson’s brashness serves him well during wartime, but he finds that he feels out of place during everyday civilian life.” I like ALL the airplane stuff. The Dam Busters, Battle of Britain, A Wing and a Prayer, Flying Tigers, Flying Leathernecks… Heh. Another war-movie list, just in case: Top 50 World War Two Movies.
May 16th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
“To Hell and Back” (with Audie Murphy — one of America’s most decorated solders — playing himself) and one not listed here, “Objective, Burma” (with Errol Flynn in what he considered his best role) have to be two of the most chilling, realistic war movies I’ve ever seen — not because of ‘realistic’ Hollywood special effects (they have none worth mentioning), but for taking the viewer into the minds of the men doing their best in the tedium, terror, and exhaustion of war.