Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?
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Van Johnson's face looks older.... around mid 40s in 1947? ....no way
BTW, what does hotfoot mean?
BTW, what does hotfoot mean?
Re: Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?
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
'hotfooting' can also be like putting a match in/on someone shoe/foot and lighting them up. Haha
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Re: Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?
Re the Monkees: You got a chortle from me.
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Boobytrap worked
Not Battleground
Right battle wrong movie
"There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here".
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"The last Blitzkrieg". A totally useless propaganda film made too long after the war to have any validity.
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He plays one of Skorzeny's Griefers during the Bulge.
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Your are correct, and by the way its known as ENTERTAINMENTROLAND1369 wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 00:17"The last Blitzkrieg". A totally useless propaganda film made too long after the war to have any validity.
If you want only documentary's watch the World at War
Did you complain as vociferously at some of the other films on this?
"There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here".
Col. George Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach
Col. George Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach
Re: Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?
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
"There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here".
Col. George Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach
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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.
Filmed in England with some American actors/actresses.....and a Canadian.....
Two of the stars lived to the age of 99!
Saw another old afternnoon movie on tv this weekend ......
Never seen it before.......not bad, I liked it.
Filmed in England with some American actors/actresses.....and a Canadian.....
Two of the stars lived to the age of 99!
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Re: Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?
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.
Re: Game: guess from which war/historical movie is the picture?
"...relations with the West quickly deteriorated...."
Given the bad faith of the US empire, I'm not surprised.
Given the bad faith of the US empire, I'm not surprised.
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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.
[quote=Attrition post_id=2463706 time=1679154889 user_id=33401]
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.
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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?Attrition wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 18:07There 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 wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 23:36As Zhukov said with Lend Lease, the RKKA could not only not have won but continue operations
besides murdering Poles what did the russians do for the Allies
"There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here".
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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
"There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here".
Col. George Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach
Col. George Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach