It is extremely loosely based on the book (and I mean loosely)!OberHund wrote:Interesting thread and I have a question
The film "Wheels of Terror" any relation to the book by Sven Hassel?
Original German vehicles in Movies
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27. Panzer Regiment had in most of the books Panzer IV and Tiger but in the film i think they use a Jagdpanther.(looks very similar to a model of Jagdpanther that i have.) Bad film but a must for Hassel Fans like meruma wrote:what tank do the "hero"group have in the movie Wheels of Terror. In the books they're Tigers, but in the movie it certainly isn't Tiger...
"Patton" was filmed in Spain, partly because they use the Spanish Army as statist. and i think that at that time the spanish army was eq with mostly german/american eq. i think i read that they took over allot of eq from US and also some from Wehrmacht.
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There sure wern't any german vehicles in Patton from what I could see. Just Vietnam era US tanks painted greyish with a large Wehrmacht symbols on them.Madsen wrote:27. Panzer Regiment had in most of the books Panzer IV and Tiger but in the film i think they use a Jagdpanther.(looks very similar to a model of Jagdpanther that i have.) Bad film but a must for Hassel Fans like meruma wrote:what tank do the "hero"group have in the movie Wheels of Terror. In the books they're Tigers, but in the movie it certainly isn't Tiger...
"Patton" was filmed in Spain, partly because they use the Spanish Army as statist. and i think that at that time the spanish army was eq with mostly german/american eq. i think i read that they took over allot of eq from US and also some from Wehrmacht.
yes this is one technique but not always....this is the SPR Tiger Rigged for explosion & then the end results.....BTW the Other SPR "Tiger" was autioned off & bought by a Reenactor in England, the Burnt out SPR Tiger ended up in the Bovington Back lot where it remained until it was bought by the Band of Brothers production company, repaird & used in that production.....oh yeah Here is the Marder....Michael Dorosh wrote:The answer to the burning question is simple; they don't.
It's a matter of perspective. Put a drum of burning liquid inside a halftrack, or in a shallow pan on the back of a tank, and shoot from an angle that makes it look like the vehicle is on fire.
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Those T-34 where the real things. They were bought from Eastern European countries (Tschekkoslovakia if I remember correctly) and used in winter scenes, which were filmed in Finland. After the filming they sold those tanks to Finnish museums and collectors.Guilherme.B.Dias wrote:Just asking in Stalingrad 1993 was those soviet tanks real or just fake in the end when the germans fight off those tanks?
BTW, if you want to know about another real things, in the film "The eagle has landed" in the beginning of the film Michael Caine is trying to save an Jewish girl. Simultaneously you see a train pass by in which there are several Sturmgeschutzes on the way to Eastern Front. They are also real original things. Finland received over 50 of them during 1944 and some where still used in military exercises during sixties. The film company used them in the film. Nowadays they are in museums and some of them where traded back to German museums, which did not have them.
"Patton" was indeed filmed in Spain as "La Batalla de Las Ardenas" was (Don´t know the english title) in both films "Tigers" were depicted by M47 and M48 and American stuff just played its own role (Chaffee,Ht,Several Dodge command cars) and I think that the only German original equipment was the trailers were the german staff is planning the Ardennes Ofensive and maybe some 88 and PaK40
Spain had many German tanks (Pz4 and StuG3)Trucks,Motobikes Combos,Artillery...But by the time these films were done most of them were long out of service...An exception were the planes used in "The Battle of britain" mostly Griffon engined Bf109 and He111 (Buchones and Casa 1111) that expertly piloted by Spanish pilots played as themselves in that film
Spain had many German tanks (Pz4 and StuG3)Trucks,Motobikes Combos,Artillery...But by the time these films were done most of them were long out of service...An exception were the planes used in "The Battle of britain" mostly Griffon engined Bf109 and He111 (Buchones and Casa 1111) that expertly piloted by Spanish pilots played as themselves in that film
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Theres two tigers in "kellys heroes" i dont remmember it to much but they did look really accurate,i think! They may be fake, but its one of the only old war films with accurate war elements like the sherman and instead of using american 30cal brownings for the germans, stuff like that this film stand out.
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