Did anyone here like "Merrill's Maurauders" with Jeff Chandler or the "Devil's Brigade" with William holden? I saw a movie paired up with "Battle of Britain" when I went to see it when it premiered in the theatersIt was about the RN X-craft,midget submarines that put mines on the Tirpitz(?).Anybody ever see this one,i can't think of the title.Thanks,Kelly Voyles
I remeber "The Devil's Brigade". What surprised me was that it was based on an actual Canadian-American unit.
I also remember that the character portrayed by William Holden rose to the rank of Major General , and in an incident in San Francisco shortly after the war, he knocked a obnoxious and direspectful cop out cold.
The cop implied the general was a fake and when he threw the general's ID on the floor, calling it a forgery, that proved to be the last straw.
Seen 'em, liked 'em both. I picked Devil's Brigade out of the $5 DVD basket at Walmart a few years ago.
I saw a movie paired up with "Battle
title.Thanks,Kelly
.James Caan as a Canadian naval officer. It was "The X-1" or something like that. They showed it a year or two ago on one of those channels packaged in with the Starz! channels. It was alot better 30 years ago when I was a kid.
IIRC they called the ship the Ludendorf in the movie. The best part to me (then and now) was the Fallschirmjager attack on the RN base.
WmB
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1st Special Service Force. Colonel (Maj. Gen to shitbird cops in 'Frisco) Frederick and his "forcemen" were precursors to later postwar US and Candian special forces organizations. The 1 SSF is reputed to have picked up the name 'black devils' from the enemy during the Anzio operation. They (unlike the Germans apparently) blackened their faces with boot polish on night ops. When the men picked up the 'black devil' moniker, their unit picked up one too, 'Devil's Brigade'. The 1 SSF really did assault and capture Monte Il Defensa as seen in the movie. But of course it probably happened a lot differently from the Hollywoodized way of thinking.
For starters the men were volunteers, not men just shy of Leavenworth.
I never heard that story. Interesting.
WmB
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It was in one of the "regular" articles in WWII magazine a few years back.
Submarine X-1 staring James Caan.
title.Thanks,Kelly
Had the maker's of the film stuck to the true story, and not had the submarine sinking the fictional "Ludendorff", the film would have been 1000% better.
Just got Bridge at Remagen out of huge pile of cheap DVDs at Walmart for $5.50.
Tom
Nobody has mentioned "Cockleshell Heroes" with Ferrer.
or on the bad movie side
Who can forget "Bombadier" with Randolph Scott.
or On PBS this last weekend "Gung Ho" with Randolph Scott.
No wonder the Statler Brothers sang "Whatever happened to Randolph Scott?"
Next thing you know they'll make a movie about Davy Crockett not going down swinging "Ol Betsy"
Rick MFE
How about "San Demetrio-London" or "Action in the North Atlantic" with Bogart and Raymond Massey
How about "The Cruel Sea"? A good movie about convoy escorts and a Flower Class Corvette
Hmm, the only place I saw that happen was on Disney. Wayne took a lance in the chest while trying to blow up the powder magazine. IIRC, Mr. Scott retired after "Ride the High Country" but Joel McCrea did a couple more flics afterwards. I'd swear he did a short TV Western series too. Ahh, REAL movie stars!!
Bill Banaszak, MFE
I've just finished Monseratt's book. Now I gotta go get me a Revbox Flower-class... damnit!
RobG
I think the current "Alamo" did it better. Bound, on his knees and all beat to hell he tells Santa Ana that he'll accept the Mexican's surrender and try to keep the Texians from harming them.
The best part about the original Disney Crockett was the real coon skin cap my dad made for me from a coon that drowned in somebody's pool. He was a butcher and it was a breeze for him. Picked up an old hat with a good liner from the local uniform store and had them add the liner. Man, I sure wish that I still had that cap :-(
Tom
RobG
Ron, Very nice work, indeed. How big (small?) is the little jigger?
RobG
thanks
Ron, the L'Arsenal Flower class is about $90 here in Aussie - the same shop sells the Revell 72th for $110... I think I'll get the big'un. :-) Although the question remains - where am I gonna put it! Hang on, I know - right next to the unbuilt 32th A-10, the unbuilt 1/16 AC Cobra, the unbuilt 1/12 Blower Bentley, the unbuilt...
And my local ToysRUs (or Toys RS, as I like to call it) has the 32nd Tamiya F-4J on sale for about $60 - usually around $180; 'snot fair - WAHHH!
RobG
And, being as how I's a complete dunderhead when it comes to shippy-type things; what is a 'spurnwater'? Or is it called something else in the English-speaking parts of the world? :-P
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