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YES Kaci i like the WILD GESSE very good film that an top actors in it too
chrisb
chrisb
got a few old movies where eagles dare etc
Cool, good movie, have not seen it in ages, Where eagles dare was on tv not that long ago...
Enjoy it...
Enjoy it...
currently watching the heroes of telemark
The Hill, great film if you've never watched it, black and white and brutal...but rivetting
will look out for that x
Think it was 1965 and stars Shaun Connery plus lots of other stars. Well worth a watch.
got that on dvd x
and bridge too far the longest day x
Personally I love the 40s/50s British B & W war films. Particular favourites are The Cruel sea, In Which We Serve, Dunkirk (the original, and far the best), and Went the day well. Usually manage to see them once a year, along with others of the period. I think it was the high point of British cinema in a lot of ways..
YES Kaci like THEM FILMS too an comedyies like the mad mad mad world now that was a classic an ive got that on dvd an another comedy classis with tony curtis in called THE GREAT RACE an got that on dvd AN MAG MEN IN FLYIN MACHINES another clissic an loads more too better an another i like an thats THE FINAL COUNT DOWN with kirk douglas an martin sheen as that FILM PROMETED ME TO BUILD MY BIG USS NIMITZ CVN 68 AIRCRAFT CARRIER ALL 9FT OF IT FAR BETTER FILMS THAN the junk they make now a days an how goes the car ?
chris an jen
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I like all the films mentioned so far 
I would add The Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron and the Dambusters.
Although not 100% accurate they capture the spirit of the stories they are telling.
I find the scene at the end of the Dambusters showing the empty rooms and personal items the men were using before preparing for the raid very moving.
Geoff.
I would add The Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron and the Dambusters.
Although not 100% accurate they capture the spirit of the stories they are telling.
I find the scene at the end of the Dambusters showing the empty rooms and personal items the men were using before preparing for the raid very moving.
Geoff.
HI Geffors yes i love these films also an was hopeing to get in the film battle of britain as they done quite a bit of filming over RAF COLTISHALL An that where i lived all my life near the base as i was outside when the B25 multi coloured camera plane flew around over our house an i see the spanish airforce ME 109 an THE HENKELS 111 flyin over me an i was waveing like wono but i ended up on the cutting room floor boo hoo lol but i think they spoilt it a bit where the main air battle was goin they went an fitted in music rather than aircraft engines screamin an gun fire which was a downer for me an they also left in a massey fergerson combine when the spitfires were takin off from the runway an you got to look quickly but its there as in them days they only had the ole binder if im right which i think i am as i lived through this period
chrisb
chrisb
Wow Chris, that must have been something special to see.
Shame you didn’t make it into the film though
There are one or two little errors like the combine harvester, another is the quite modern 1960 door of Robert Shaws cottage
Geoff
Shame you didn’t make it into the film though
There are one or two little errors like the combine harvester, another is the quite modern 1960 door of Robert Shaws cottage
Geoff
YES it was Geoff to see them henkils an me 109 an spitfirs an hurricanes if i remember rightly an the film B25 was a real treat for anybody who loves planes like me an raf coltishall was sort of a main stay base back then as i spent a fair time on there it was very exciting times then as there was all sorts of planes flyin around then an now the idiots have turned it in to a prisoin an the sky is empty god i miss them times an i bet my dad would roll in his grave if he knew what they did to it oh dearWow Chris, that must have been something special to see.
Shame you didn’t make it into the film though
There are one or two little errors like the combine harvester, another is the quite modern 1960 door of Robert Shaws cottage
Geoff
chrisb
Richard todd plays major frost at the bridge
In ww2 todd was in the paras and was really there..... He wore his own beret in the film........ Theres one bit where an officer comes up to todd to report...... The actor was playing richard todd recreating something that really happened
Im currently working my way thro Band of Brothers again...... I knew someone who was an extra...... He said he was killed twice as a german and three times as an american lol.... Theres one bit wheres hes standing behind tom hardy..... And its when hardy was just starting out so was an unknown
Similar thing could have happened in Bridge too far. Audrey Hepburn was asked to play Kate Ter Horst, but refused. She was there, as a teenager, helping the doctor, and found it too traumatic. If she had played that part she would have taken a message from an actor playing herself…..
As to the music part in BoB, that was the only part of the score written by the acclaimed classical composer William Walton that was left in, and, (sorry Chris) to me, is the highlight of the film. It absolutely nails the confusion and disorientation of air combat. As to mistakes, yes there are a few. TV aerials on the roofs of the houses being one, but it had some truly memorable cameos, especially that of Bill Foxley, a real member of the Guinea pig club as a badly burned pilot.
I forgot Dambusters as well. Truly great film. The scene where they board the lancs just before take off was filmed in one take, and all the extras were picked to be as close in appearance to the actual crews. It’s therefore probably as accurate as can be.
Bit of a Geek on this stuff LOL. Bit of a lollipop for you…..the village in “Went the day well” is the same one as used in the vicar of Dibley, so one of the kids could’ve been Jim Trott…..
As to the music part in BoB, that was the only part of the score written by the acclaimed classical composer William Walton that was left in, and, (sorry Chris) to me, is the highlight of the film. It absolutely nails the confusion and disorientation of air combat. As to mistakes, yes there are a few. TV aerials on the roofs of the houses being one, but it had some truly memorable cameos, especially that of Bill Foxley, a real member of the Guinea pig club as a badly burned pilot.
I forgot Dambusters as well. Truly great film. The scene where they board the lancs just before take off was filmed in one take, and all the extras were picked to be as close in appearance to the actual crews. It’s therefore probably as accurate as can be.
Bit of a Geek on this stuff LOL. Bit of a lollipop for you…..the village in “Went the day well” is the same one as used in the vicar of Dibley, so one of the kids could’ve been Jim Trott…..
OK ABOUT the music in BOB well Tim that your opinion an if you liked it then fair dinkemn my freind we all got different likes
ATB my freind
chrisb
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