Your top 10 favorite WW2 movies

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DJ: In my 21 years in the Navy, I guess I knew 1,000 officers. Not one
of them spoke Japanese, and probably less than 1% spoke a second
language. Most often I heard, "I took Latin, in school". It was coincidental
that one man on a carrier could speak Japanese (as a second language),
after capturing a Japanese airman ? I doubt it...

Charles
 
we don't train officers to know another language? good grief.

i was in with some drill sgts. that could not speak spanish, but there were several puerto ricans who spoke very little english.
good thing we weren't invaded at that time!

dj
 
Operation Burma! was banned in the UK for awhile because Hollywood made it look like an all US operation.

A few more movies...

Heroes of Telemark
The War Lover
Up Periscope
The Train


Mediocre movies..

Memphis Belle
Flags of Our Fathers
Stalingrad (made by the same people as Das Boot)
The Desert Rats
The Flying Tigers
 
Marshall_Stack said:
Operation Burma! was banned in the UK for awhile because Hollywood made it look like an all US operation.
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Think you mean Objective, Burma!, and I doubt that Hollywood was trying to insult the Brits and Australians. American perspective, that's all. I could be wrong but I don't think so.

Surprised that you thought Flags of Our Fathers mediocre. I would put it in my top 20.

TO
 
TO: I read the book first, then saw the movie. The book was outstanding,
the movie didn't go far enough. Remember "Iggy" ? The movie never said
what happened to him.... the book went into detail.

Charles

ToughOmbre said:
Surprised that you thought Flags of Our Fathers mediocre. I would put it in my top 20.

TO
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ccheese said:
TO: I read the book first, then saw the movie. The book was outstanding,
the movie didn't go far enough. Remember "Iggy" ? The movie never said
what happened to him.... the book went into detail.

Charles
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Agree Charles. Book was much better (they usually are). But I think Clint Eastwood did a nice job on the movie.

TO
 
Marshall, I thought "Stalingrad" was a decent movie. Fairly realistic until the ending in the basement but not bad. Much better than some of the drivel out there.

I, too, forgot "The Train" with Burt Lancaster, am I right?
 
A few other good ones..

633 Squadron
Task Force
The Nuremberg Trials (or something like that)
The Diary of Anne Frank
PT-109

More mediocre movies..
The Great Raid
Guns of Navarone

Ones that I have never seen..

Slaughterhouse 5
Catch 22
 
From Wikipedia about Objective Burma!..

"The film was withdrawn from release in the United Kingdom after protests stemming from the Americanization of what had been a mainly British, Indian and Commonwealth conflict. Winston Churchill was so infuriated that the movie was not shown in the UK until 1952, then accompanied by an apology.[1] There were also objections to Errol Flynn playing the hero as despite being Australian he had stayed in Hollywood during the war, unlike actors like David Niven or James Stewart"

I had heard this from the host on Turner Classic Movies..
 
ccheese said:
Remember "The Purple Heart"....? Dana Andrews. About POW's in
Japan.... or.... John Wayne's "Flying Tigers" "Fighting SeaBees" ?

Charles
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I have seen and liked both John Wayne movies (I mentioned Flying Tigers). I always wondered where Hollywood got Japanese actors to play in these movies. Are they really Chinese or of other Asian ancestry?

Never seen the "Purple Heart". Sounds interesting...
 
Some of the actors (of my day) were pretty good. J. Carroll Nash for
example. He was the Italian in "Sahara", (with Bogart) I've seen him play a
western Indian, and an Oriental in many movies. How about John Wayne as
a Mongol ?

Charles
 
ccheese said:
TO: No doubt about it.... an outstanding directing job.....

Do you remember "The Fighting Sullivans" ?

Charles
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Charles,

Yes, another good one. Haven't seen it in a while though. You mentioned The Purple Heart in another post. It's on my top ten list. Actually it's the first WW II movie I ever watched, and made me a Doolittle Raider fan.

TO
 
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