film The Great Escape

[Pops1967GTX]

Yea, War movies. I'm a big fan of Steve McQueen. He was in iconic film The Great Escape, One of the best war Movies & Great Motorcycle chases...Some information that is interesting.............


[video]http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-great-escape-murders-how-the-nazi-slaughter-of-escaped-heroes-led-to-one-of-post-war-europes-biggest-manhunts.html[/video]

 

[tallhair]

Awesome movie ... yeah Steve was a badass. Ever see The Sand Pebbles? It's a really good Steve McQueen movie.

[video=youtube_share;bkb5JDAGcFs]http://youtu.be/bkb5JDAGcFs[/video]

 

[YY1]

Didn't all those escapees get recaptured shortly thereafter?

 

[tallhair]

Didn't all those escapees get recaptured shortly thereafter?

I think a few got away .. btw the movie was based on a true story

 

[Pops1967GTX]

The article tells how they were hunted down & killed by the germans.........


http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war...one-of-post-war-europes-biggest-manhunts.html

 

[snakeyes]

pops there were so many real good war flicks back in the day ,love watching them

 

[Pops1967GTX]

pops there were so many real good war flicks back in the day ,love watching them

X2:headbang:

 

[Hemi Rebel]

Awesome movie ... yeah Steve was a badass. Ever see The Sand Pebbles? It's a really good Steve McQueen movie.

[video=youtube_share;bkb5JDAGcFs]http://youtu.be/bkb5JDAGcFs[/video]

I love that movie. After bullitt, its my favorite McQueen film.

 

[tallhair]

I love that movie. After bullitt, its my favorite McQueen film.

live stem. dead stem .. a bit of sad but a good movie

 

[YY1]

RE: TGE...all these years I thought what a kick *** "real story" movie that was.

But a few years ago it played on PBS/History/TCM , and they had one of those "history behind the film" specials, and they said none actually got away.

Hollywood just though it was a better story to stop before all the bad parts happened.

Kind of a bummer after all the "feel good" added to reality.

 

[tallhair]

RE: TGE...all these years I thought what a kick *** "real story" movie that was.

But a few years ago it played on PBS/History/TCM , and they had one of those "history behind the film" specials, and they said none actually got away.

Hollywood just though it was a better story to stop before all the bad parts happened.

Kind of a bummer after all the "feel good" added to reality.

the movie shows that a lot were rounded up and executed including Mr Big

 

[scotts74birds]

For prison camp movies, Stalag 17, with William Holden was one of the best. I loved the Sand Pebbles, great movie. The best are Bridge over the river Kwai, A Bridge too Far, The Longest Day, The Big Red One, Wake island, "Run Silent, Run deep", Das Boot, Destination Tokyo, The Bedford Incident, The Enemy Below, Midway, Von Ryans Express, Battle of Britain, Wing Commander, Strategic Air Command, Mig Alley, 30 seconds over Tokyo, Dawn Patrol, Memphis Belle, The Flying Leathernecks, Pork Chop Hill. I'm leaving out a few that I liked because I cant remember the names. They focused on P51's, P47's, and B17 crews of the war.

 

[RustyRatRod]

I kinda Like The Blob.

 

[scotts74birds]

And Steve was good in that one too!

 

[Kowal]

For prison camp movies, Stalag 17, with William Holden was one of the best. I loved the Sand Pebbles, great movie. The best are Bridge over the river Kwai, A Bridge too Far, The Longest Day, The Big Red One, Wake island, "Run Silent, Run deep", Das Boot, Destination Tokyo, The Bedford Incident, The Enemy Below, Midway, Von Ryans Express, Battle of Britain, Wing Commander, Strategic Air Command, Mig Alley, 30 seconds over Tokyo, Dawn Patrol, Memphis Belle, The Flying Leathernecks, Pork Chop Hill. I'm leaving out a few that I liked because I cant remember the names. They focused on P51's, P47's, and B17 crews of the war.

Forgot "Twelve O'Clock High". Gregory Peck

 

[snakeyes]

yup those are all good now lets keep this post going , lets start with all the black and whites and work forward ,how about it pops.

 

[snakeyes]

I'll start a list 1)-Open City 1945 b/w -dir.Roberto Rossellini, 2)-The Story of G.I.Joe 1945 b/w dir.-William A. Wellman, 3)-They Were Expendable 1945 b/w dir.John Ford, 4)-A Walk in the Sun 1945 dir.Lewis Milestone, 5)-The Best Years of our Lives 1946 dir.-William Wyler , 6)-Notorious 1946 dir.- Alfred Hitchcock, 7)-Battleground 1949 b/w dir.-William A.Willman, 8)-The Third Man 1949 b/w dir.-Carol Reed, 9)-The Desert Fox 1951 b/w dir.-Henry Hathway, 10)-Stalag 17 b/w dir. Billy Wilder, 11)-The Desert Rats 1953 b/w- dir.Robert Wise, 12)-From Here To Eternity 1953 b/w-dir. Fred Zinneman,13)-The Bridges Toko-Ri color dir.Mark Robson, 14)-To Hell and Back 1955 color dir. Jesse Hibbs, 15)-The Bridges on the River Kwai 1957 color dir.David Lean, 16)-Paths of Glory b/w 1957 dir.Stanley Kubrick, 17)-Dunkirk 1959 b/w dir. Leslie Norman, 18)-Run Silient Run Deep 1958 b/w dir.Robert Wise . will add more ,nothing like a good old military flick .

 

[scotts74birds]

God bless TCM for some of these greats being re-aired.

 

[moparcanuck]

A little known but great movie is The Keep. It's about a group of German soldiers in Romania staying in a fortress designed to keep in the Devil. Jurgen Prochnow is the German commander until the SS take over.

 

[scotts74birds]

A little known but great movie is The Keep. It's about a group of German soldiers in Romania staying in a fortress designed to keep in the Devil. Jurgen Prochnow is the German commander until the SS take over.

I'll have to look for that one! Jurgen Prochnow also being the Captain in the classic, "Das Boot". In the directors cut of that movie, they spent an extra half-hour of that film on the scene of them being stranded on the bottom, and not knowing if they could raise the boat. So well done, you could feel the tension as the viewer!