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Peter Ewart
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:05 pm |
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Rich
Yes, that's yet another I saw as a lad when it came out, but as I haven't seen it since I can't remember much. Had forgotten it was Kenneth More & wouldn't have had a clue who had taken any female roles. Seem to recall the Altmark prison ship also featured, unless I've read about it somewhere else.
If I remember correctly (I'm going back nearly 50 years so I'm probably wrong!) the end of the film contained Churchill's "end of the beginning" speech, which I therefore assumed must have been delivered in response to the news of the sinking, whereas he was, in fact, referring to the El Alamein victory later in the war. An example of director's licence, I suppose, although it had me assuming an erroneous genesis of the phrase for years. Films!!!
As regards El Alamein, you're right. I can't think of a film devoted to it, unless one was made which has disappeared without trace. What a surprise, given Monty's profile in the '50s. (I'm surprised he didn't commission one himself!!!) And when one thinks of all the RAF blockbusters in the '50s and early '60s, how strange that Battle of Britain took so long to emerge. Still, when it was finally made it did mean it was made in colour.
Now that we live in the age of DVDs, I think it's time I had another look at some of these films I saw as a lad, as I can't remember a thing about most of them. (As one good book equals ten good films, it'll take a while). I came across Dunkirk by accident on Italian TV with sub-titles in a Rome hotel room about 25 years ago, and immediately cancelled our evening plans, as I had not seen it since its first release & wanted to recognise all the streets, cottages and sand dunes I knew as a boy. Eighteen months ago I happened to be in Redcar, near Middlesbrough, & relatives took us to the beach where the Dunkirk scene in Atonement was being made. It was a Sunday and we were free to wander all over the set as the tide came in, and I have to say it looked unbelievably authentic. I looked at some 1940 film & snapshots later and could see they'd copied everything faithfully down to the last red boatsail and each marooned vehicle. Haven't seen the film, but I wonder if I am the only man in the world to have wandered about the "Dunkirk beaches" of both these film settings - 48 years apart?
I can't say I've ever been impressed by American war films but I do remember watching something by the name of Pork Chop Hill (Korea?) and Westerns were a must, although they had to contain very frightening "injuns" to be any good - or John Wayne, or both. One, in colour, called Tonka (involving LBH) springs to mind. And what about Kenneth More in The Sherriff of Fractured Jaw? Laugh? I nearly wet myself! Enough.
Peter
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