Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?

[Uncle John]

Van Johnson's face looks older.... around mid 40s in 1947? ....no way

BTW, what does hotfoot mean?

[dgfred]

to hotfoot it likely means to run fast

'hotfooting' can also be like putting a match in/on someone shoe/foot and lighting them up. Haha

[OpanaPointer]

Re the Monkees: You got a chortle from me.

[LineDoggie]

Van Johnson in ' Battleground ' ( 1947 ), by William A. Wellman.

Boobytrap worked

Not Battleground

Right battle wrong movie

[ROLAND1369]

"The last Blitzkrieg". A totally useless propaganda film made too long after the war to have any validity.

[ROLAND1369]

He plays one of Skorzeny's Griefers during the Bulge.

[LineDoggie]

"The last Blitzkrieg". A totally useless propaganda film made too long after the war to have any validity.

Your are correct, and by the way its known as ENTERTAINMENT

If you want only documentary's watch the World at War


Did you complain as vociferously at some of the other films on this?

[Attrition]

Sad to say I like The World at War less each time I watch it and like The Great War more. I find TWaW achingly Anglocentric. The places that the real war was fought were China and the USSR, which are treated as also-rans.

[LineDoggie]

Sad to say I like The World at War less each time I watch it and like The Great War more. I find TWaW achingly Anglocentric. The places that the real war was fought were China and the USSR, which are treated as also-rans.

As Zhukov said with Lend Lease, the RKKA could not only not have won but continue operations

[Uncle John]

No new one? OK, I'll go ...... I said "Hotfoot" remember?

Saw another old afternnoon movie on tv this weekend ......
Never seen it before.......not bad, I liked it.

oh no.jpg

Filmed in England with some American actors/actresses.....and a Canadian.....
Two of the stars lived to the age of 99!

[VanillaNuns]

Sad to say I like The World at War less each time I watch it and like The Great War more. I find TWaW achingly Anglocentric. The places that the real war was fought were China and the USSR, which are treated as also-rans.

To be fair, the Soviet Union and Communist China weren't exactly keen to cooperate with the West at the time of production. The makers of The World at War probably did the best they could under the circumstances regarding interviews with WW2 participants and limited access to research materials which didn't become available until the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991.

And when the FSB finally did open their archives it didn't last long as relations with the West quickly deteriorated. There is a goldmine of artefacts, uniforms, medals and documents that will probably never see the light of day again for decades.

[Attrition]

"...relations with the West quickly deteriorated...."

Given the bad faith of the US empire, I'm not surprised.

[Attrition]

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Sad to say I like The World at War less each time I watch it and like The Great War more. I find TWaW achingly Anglocentric. The places that the real war was fought were China and the USSR, which are treated as also-rans.
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As Zhukov said with Lend Lease, the RKKA could not only not have won but continue operations
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There was an intercontinental division of labour in which the British and increasingly the US provided supplies to Russia and Russia did the fighting. I'm not denigrating the other allies but pointing out that a telly programme in the 70s is rather dated because of its Anglocentrism.

[LineDoggie]

Sad to say I like The World at War less each time I watch it and like The Great War more. I find TWaW achingly Anglocentric. The places that the real war was fought were China and the USSR, which are treated as also-rans.

As Zhukov said with Lend Lease, the RKKA could not only not have won but continue operations

There was an intercontinental division of labour in which the British and increasingly the US provided supplies to Russia and Russia did the fighting. I'm not denigrating the other allies but pointing out that a telly programme in the 70s is rather dated because of its Anglocentrism.

Will you look at that, way to go ignoring the US and UK , Australians fighting in North Africa, Mediterranean, Asia, Pacific as though only russia ever counts and only the USSR ever did anything. Did Russia provide 1 tank company to the western allies? send any convoys to aid Canada?

besides murdering Poles what did the russians do for the Allies

[LineDoggie]

"...relations with the West quickly deteriorated...."

Given the bad faith of the US empire, I'm not surprised.

Bad Faith? you mean like having active spy rings in your allies nations like the Russian did?

like murdering 10,000 Poles at Katyn?

Like threatening US troops with Murder as they returned soviet POW's to soviet niceties?

https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/Occ ... m#contents

On 19 January 1946, a detail of Third Army troops -men and officers far from pleased with their assignment- undertook to put 399 former Soviet soldiers aboard a train at Dachau.

The Russians refused to leave their quarters and, after tear gas was used to force them out, 9 were found to have hanged themselves, 2 had stabbed themselves to death, and 20 others had to be hospitalized for self-inflicted wounds.

Of the 368 Russians eventually put aboard the train, 11 were found at the last minute not to be Soviet citizens and six escaped en route.

In a dismal final scene in the Soviet zone, Russian soldiers threatened to shoot the American guards if they attempted to leave the train. Hoping to avoid another such series of events, Third Army postponed further shipments while it reworked its procedures and awaited the results of appeals from the Russian Orthodox clergy to the President and the Pope.60

https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/Occ-GY/ch23.htm#b2