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August 17, 2006 at 11:58 pm #5440
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ModeratorI didnt want to start another thread to ask this so I will just do it here; Has there been a good movie about the Korean war made yet?
Wasn't M.A.S.H. built around the Korean War? I remember that being the first "adult" movie I ever saw. It wasn't your typical war film.
August 18, 2006 at 12:09 am #5441Stumpfoot
ParticipantI am a huge mash fan (the series) It could be very funny and a great drama, all the actors could pull off either one. But I was thinking more along the lines of a historical adaptation of the war.
August 18, 2006 at 3:10 pm #5442Historywonk
ParticipantThere hasn't been a lot of Korean War films that I can remember, but I remember “Steel Helmet” as being pretty damned gritty. It was a small movie about an infantry squad and it starred Gene Evans as the hard-bitten sergeant, and please don't ask me why I remember that factoid. I also remember that one character carried something marked “Fat Paul” which turned out to belong to a Father Paul who was killed doing something heroic. I also think there was a Sidney Poitier movie that revolved around an incident leading to a case of hysterical blindness. There is also the classic “Bridges over Toko-Ri” which is more a story set in Korea rather than a movie about the Korean War. I think there was a Victor Mature movie about a Greek engineer unit. And I think there was a fairly recent movie about an incident where American artillery was called down on a group of civilians because there was supposedly a large group of infiltrators mixed in with them. Don't know whether all of this helps or confuses, but its the best I can do.
August 18, 2006 at 6:28 pm #5443Stumpfoot
ParticipantIt seems to be a rather over looked war in Hollywood.
August 18, 2006 at 7:32 pm #5444Stumpfoot
ParticipantHas Das Boot been mentioned?
February 4, 2007 at 2:40 pm #5445John E Reb
ParticipantI didnt want to start another thread to ask this so I will just do it here; Has there been a good movie about the Korean war made yet?
the only one that springs to mind is The bridges at Toko Ri
February 4, 2007 at 4:51 pm #5446H.H. Buggfuzz
ParticipantMister Roberts, hands down the best WW2 movie. Not an action shootum up movie but great
February 26, 2007 at 2:37 am #5447Wally
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February 26, 2007 at 3:19 am #5448Stumpfoot
ParticipantI just saw Windtalkers the other night, that wasnt bad.
February 10, 2008 at 3:39 pm #5449History Farts
ParticipantIn answer to your Korean War query, The Bridge at Toko Ri (sp?) is a favorite of mine. Mickey Rooney and William Holden.
February 16, 2008 at 12:42 am #5450H.H. Buggfuzz
ParticipantMister Roberts is my favoriteGod is My Co-Pilot is nextWhen I was a kid I lived in Gen Robert L. Scott's hometown of Macon. Ga The premier of God is My Co-Pilot was in Macon( this was during WW2 and probably a propaganda film to some extent). I stood in a line over a block long to get into the theater. General Scott died last year at about 90 years old. He worked at the Air Museum in Warner Robins one day a week until just before his death
March 1, 2008 at 8:17 am #5451History Farts
ParticipantMister Roberts is my favoriteGod is My Co-Pilot is nextWhen I was a kid I lived in Gen Robert L. Scott's hometown of Macon. Ga The premier of God is My Co-Pilot was in Macon( this was during WW2 and probably a propaganda film to some extent). I stood in a line over a block long to get into the theater. General Scott died last year at about 90 years old. He worked at the Air Museum in Warner Robins one day a week until just before his death
March 1, 2008 at 8:33 am #5452History Farts
ParticipantSaving private Ryan is excellent. Speaking of casablanca I just got the two disc special edition and loved it, if your a fan you have to get it.
I agree. I remember when I paid for it. Had a bunch of Chinese type take out, hungry I was. But the opening minutes of men trying to get of those landing boats .... I mean I had some tasty stuff lined up, but the carnage killed my appietite. I was all lined up with chopsticks and cheap cartons, and I just weenied out. Killed my appetite. After wathching machine gun bullets tear through young men, I lost my appitite for Chinese food, with amazing rapidity.But, to this day, I still love Oriental food.
March 1, 2008 at 3:04 pm #5453Wally
ParticipantWe're forgetting Catch-22.
March 1, 2008 at 9:20 pm #5454History Farts
ParticipantAnd “The Guns of Navarone”
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