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If I were in the Taleban sitting in my cave and decided to surf away from Al Jazeerah and then I saw that all those squaddies were watching a diet of British War Movies every day, I'd be running for the hills.... er, I mean bigger hills,... much-further-away and safer hills.
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Rich
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I knew all of them except "Ice Cold in Alex"..a British film?...on dvd?..thanks in advance...
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AMB
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Rich,
Ice Cold in Alex is a classic about a group of 8th Army soldiers caught out in the desert and their exploits to get back to Alexandria. Should easily be found on DVD. AMB |
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Simon Rosbottom
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Yes, a classic, John Mills, Sylvia Sims and Anthony Quayle. The title refers to the beer that John Mills' is looking froward to when/if they ever get out of the desert and back to Alexandria.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053935/ It's on DVD, you can pick it up singly or as part of class war films set. I was in Alexandria when my old boss phoned me, I said that I was in Alex and he asked "Is it ice cold?" Ah, it's entered the language. Interestingly, his best friend's landlady at university was Sylvia Sims! The classic clip at the end. Don't watch this if you don't know the ending!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Ra7hQoHpE |
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Rich
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Thank you all....this one certainly was under my radar..will certainly check it out...
And regarding the list..real entertaining war films...but I guess a film on El Alamein never came up...great British victory with Monty at the helm...maybe a film hasn't really done it well or is El Alamein perhaps not top of mind anymore among the current generation?... |
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Simon,
Great clip! AMB |
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Peter Ewart
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Rich
I don't know how well Ice Cold in Alex did at the box office - quite well I'd imagine - but with Mills & Quayle in lead parts it could hardly fail at that time. It is the film that always comes to my mind when I think of the hype attending the release of new ones. I remember its release very well indeed as the trailer seemed to be shown at our local cinema for weeks and weeks, so it was certainly "hyped" as a big film. For some reason, although a very regular picture-goer as a child, I never did see it, but I still have a vague memory of someone (Quayle or Mills perhaps) pulling someone desperately on the end of a rope & a lot of shouting going on at the time. I don't know why I still have this impression that the trailer came and stayed for weeks, but that little "clip" has stayed with me. I think I was too young to know what or where "Alex" was and my brothers and I must have seen an awful lot of these classic 1950s British war films (the first and second-string actors were nearly always the same!) without having a clue what was going on, and we were probably satisfied if there was simply a lot of shooting! The two which stand out in the memory - way, way above all the others - from that period are The Bridge on the River Kwai (I still haven't seen cinema queues to match the length of those queues) and Dunkirk (probably because it was filmed in and around my home town, so it was part of our life for some weeks). Neither are on the above list, I see. I'm probably stuck in a time warp as I can only remember seeing about eight of the above and there are four or five on the list I've never heard of! Peter |
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Rich
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Peter..
Speaking of a time warp, I have a similar experience like you with 'Sink the Bismarck" when I saw it played in a theater. That film has stayed in my head for all the years. Of course it's probably one of my favorite films. I don't know why but perhaps it had something to do where I was sitting which was kind of in the 3rd or 4th row center. To see the battleships (no matter even if they were probably filmed in a bathtub or something!) trading fire on the high sea was an indelible image seared on my brain. I felt I was right there. And when the Hood blew up oh boy...And all that responsibility Kenneth More had. Well, another thing is I think I fell for Dana Wynter..she was real pretty...well I was growing boy at the time, eh????.. |
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Simon Rosbottom
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From a post of mine last summer.
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Rich
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hehheheheh...lucky guy!.....now I didn't know she was German! Danke...I thought she was British.
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Simon Rosbottom
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The daughter of a noted surgeon, Dana Wynter was born Dagmar Winter in Berlin, Germany, and grew up in England.
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Rich
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boy you learn something every day around here!...and you might know this...she was in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", one of the great sci-fi film of the paranoid '50's.....
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Simon Rosbottom
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She later went into TV. Ironside, Hawaii-Five-O, The Rockford Files, Magnum PI, Hart-to-Hart, The Love Boat .... Oh dear, has your opinion of her now dropped?
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Rich
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hey Simon....I see you've been followin' her around too!...
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