HeinzBaby Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 A bit of nostalgia... As a kid I loved 'Ice cold in Alex' starring John Mills and Anthony Quaille. Another goodie was 'Play Dirty' with Michael Cain, the intro had a SAS jeep bounding along the dunes with 'Lili Marlene' blaring from its wireless. Both films captured the heat and sand from everything I've read or been told about in the desert...anyone else care to add to the list? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMplayer Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 I just saw 'Spirited Away, and thought it was great. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozi_digger Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Try 'Sea of Sand' a British B&W film (1950ish?)about the LRDPG. Based on the true story of a patrol, all goes wrong and the members must E & E back to base on foot. On same subject, but more related to CMBO, try 'Theirs is the Glory'. A recreation of the British battles at Arnhem. Filmed in September 1945, on location (bombed out ruins of Arnhem), using original para regiment members who were there in 1944. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Casablanca is pretty good . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pfc Driscole James E Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Originally posted by HeinzBaby: Another goodie was 'Play Dirty' with Michael Cain, the intro had a SAS jeep bounding along the dunes with 'Lili Marlene' blaring from its wireless. I have not seen "Play Dirty" since cutting High School in the sixties. I have a different memory of the opening sequence. Fast moving jeep with two occupants, radio blasting an Italian mandolin tune, driver wearing Italian hat, passenger is unconscious or dead and almost falls out a few times. The jeep rolls through a gap in the wire and the driver changes the radio to a weedy English accented version of "You are my Sunshine" the driver changes into an English cap. The last scene and lines are one of my favorite movie endings. Is it available on DVD in the UK? I've got a code free DVD player that can convert PAL to NTSC. I'm going to order, from the UK, a DVD collection with "Ice Cold in Alex", "The Cruel Sea", "The Dam Busters" and another film that escapes my memory just now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Furious Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Sahara is always a favourite of mine. Can't beat that ending. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Originally posted by Mr Furious: Sahara is always a favourite of mine. Can't beat that ending. Bogart or Belushi? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GJK Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Gigli was really good, should get you in the mood for the battles for Sicily/Italy. Eeerrrrrrr, no it won't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Ever since my dad bought his Willy's Jeep, he kept telling me about Play Dirty; it was finally on the Canadian History Channel a couple years ago and I managed to snag a copy (my aunt taped it for us, actually!) It was not bad at all. Pretty standard B Movie stuff, but Michael Caine is always fun to watch, in his typical understated British way. Harry Andrews never disappoints either. And yes, you have pegged the intro exactly - only it wasn't an Italian hat, it was a German one. And the mandolin tune came later, the intro had Lili Marlene, and then You Are My Sunshine, as you remember. There was also a feisty German nurse who beat the crap out of one of the team members who tried to rape her. [ October 28, 2003, 09:20 PM: Message edited by: Michael Dorosh ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Play Dirty (includes a picture of Dorosh's 'feisty nurse'). The site identifies the officer in opening scene as being played by Nigel Davenport, although it appears to think he's a mercenary rather than a special forces officer as I remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pfc Driscole James E Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by Firefly: Play Dirty (includes a picture of Dorosh's 'feisty nurse'). That must be a out take of an Italian Nurse attacking Caine. The German Nurse was built like a fullback and applied her sensible shoes to full effect, but she did not have a mustache, as I recall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by Pfc Driscole James E: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly: Play Dirty (includes a picture of Dorosh's 'feisty nurse'). That must be a out take of an Italian Nurse attacking Caine. The German Nurse was built like a fullback and applied her sensible shoes to full effect, but she did not have a mustache, as I recall. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 LOL. She was a brunette too! Good find, though, Firefly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdSober Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mr Furious: Sahara is always a favourite of mine. Can't beat that ending. Bogart or Belushi? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by ColdSober: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mr Furious: Sahara is always a favourite of mine. Can't beat that ending. Bogart or Belushi? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj. Battaglia Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 I'm with Mr. Furious (as long as he's talking Bogart). While an obvious propaganda film, it still has some great elements in it. When it was made, Italy was out of the war, so the Italian character is shown sympathetically, and helps out the good guys. Not to mention great footage of the M3 Lee in action! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj. Battaglia Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Oh, and if you want to talk about Italian campaign, how can we forget Von Ryan's Express? Sinatra's second best movie. Now what was the name of the Italian POW camp commandant? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by Maj. Battaglia: Oh, and if you want to talk about Italian campaign, how can we forget Von Ryan's Express? Sinatra's second best movie. Now what was the name of the Italian POW camp commandant? I can't recall but he played the bad guy in the original "Thunderball". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chashm Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 HI , speaking of desert war movies, I saw Nicholas Cage in a war movie. He was an Italian soldier out with an officer. (I am not thinking Cpt Correlli's Pile o' Poo), this one must have been late 80'sish THe scene I remember is when the officer stopped to take a "break" and was commenting on how regular he was, in fact if you looked at your watch and it was 2PM, you knew where to find him For some reason, I never finished the movie or cought the name, if anyone knows what the heck I am talking about, that would be great. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj. Battaglia Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Frenchy, you are correct. Adolfo Celi was not only in Von Ryan's Express and Thunderball but also in OK Connery, which I did not know. I actually did see this last movie, which featured Sean Connery's younger brother Neil, but there were these two robots and some dude making funny comments from the lower right hand corner. Ruined the movie for me. Adolfo Celi's IMDB profile And I can't find a Belushi movie called Sahara in IMDB. There's that bad one with Brooke Shields. Are you guys thinking of 1941? Belushi's IMDB profile 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by Maj. Battaglia: Frenchy, you are correct. Adolfo Celi was not only in Von Ryan's Express and Thunderball but also in OK Connery, which I did not know. I actually did see this last movie, which featured Sean Connery's younger brother Neil, but there were these two robots and some dude making funny comments from the lower right hand corner. Ruined the movie for me. Adolfo Celi's IMDB profile And I can't find a Belushi movie called Sahara in IMDB. There's that bad one with Brooke Shields. Are you guys thinking of 1941? Belushi's IMDB profile Wrong Belushi. Jim Belushi starred in a remake of Sahara in '95. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chashm Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Hey, Thanks for the indirect help. The mention of the IMDB led me to the title of the film Tempo di uccidere or Time to Kill 1990 cooool :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Furious Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by Pvt. Ryan: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Mr Furious: Sahara is always a favourite of mine. Can't beat that ending. Bogart or Belushi? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj. Battaglia Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Jim Belushi? Made for TV? I seem to remember hearing about this now. I think I just decided to give it a miss, and it was pretty easy to do so. Boo, thanks for pointing that out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pfc Driscole James E Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Originally posted by chashm: HI , speaking of desert war movies, I saw Nicholas Cage in a war movie. He was an Italian soldier out with an officer. (I am not thinking Cpt Correlli's Pile o' Poo), this one must have been late 80'sish THe scene I remember is when the officer stopped to take a "break" and was commenting on how regular he was, in fact if you looked at your watch and it was 2PM, you knew where to find him For some reason, I never finished the movie or cought the name, if anyone knows what the heck I am talking about, that would be great. The movie is "Time To Kill". Cage plays an Italian First Lt., the regular officer is a Major and his regular time is 1530. It's actually about Ethiopia pre W.W.II. Not really a war movie in that the Ethiopain resistance is almost over and the action is off screen. I.E Cage's unit goes hunting for "bandits" who have overrun an enginer unit but do not make contact and at another point Cage is alone and hides while "bandits" ride by. a Blub on the video tape box is "A Twisted Tale of Forbidden Love". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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