Re: Combat films- more for the list

I can not allow all these great old movies to pass by without mentioning
"Objective Burma", w/ Erroll Flynn, arguably my favorite of WW2 movies,
and the
one movie around that captures a true special operation in all it's ups
and
downs. Enough so that I make all the prospective candidates that we send
down
to selection every year watch it during our own pre-selection. And they
have to
watch it too, since it's part of the whole sleep deprivation
thing...<EG>.

Los

Robin Paul wrote:

> Another three goodies-
> "A walk in the sun"- follows a US Army infantry company in Sicily-
> resolutely unheroic and pointing out the
>
> "They were not divided"- a British tank squadron followed from basic
> training  to combat in NW Europe (in Shermans)- thoroughly convincing.
>
> "Attack!"- Jack Palance as a worn-out US infantry officer in NW
Europe,
> Eddie Albert as a political appointee company commander, Lee Marvin as
a
> cynical Colonel with post-war politics uppermost in his mind.  Lack of
> official cooperation means there's some fairly odd hardware (a
fearsome
> German Tank cobbled together out of a prehistoric Marmon Herrington
light
> tank prototype) but dramatically it's very effective.
>
> There's also an excellent Sam Fuller movie about a US company fighting
a
> delaying action in deep snow in Korea- the title escapes me for the
moment.
>
> Talking of Private Ryan- does anyone know if those fake Tigers are the
same
> individual machines as the Kelly's Heroes Tigers?
>
> Rob Paul