Ciaran Byrne Posted 26 December , 2005 Share Posted 26 December , 2005 Personally I think "There's a Devil in the Drum" would be a good one. Maybe "Old Soldiers Never Die" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 26 December , 2005 Share Posted 26 December , 2005 Depends who made it...but "Middle Parts of Fortune" would get my vote. It would have to be sensitively made, but it encompasses a small set of central characters, not too many opportunities for mega-buck special effects, and actually has characters you could be interested in. However, Spielberg could get hold of it, and with Tom Hanks as the American volunteer on the Western front, with Gwyneth Paltrow as the French can-can dancer who made it to the trenches to save the Brad Pitt character, it could be truly awful. Maybe it's best if we don't play this game.....Hollywood might be watching..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gporta Posted 26 December , 2005 Share Posted 26 December , 2005 However, Spielberg could get hold of it, and with Tom Hanks as the American volunteer on the Western front, with Gwyneth Paltrow as the French can-can dancer who made it to the trenches to save the Brad Pitt character, it could be truly awful. Steven, You have briefly, but truly deftly put the ways of tinseltown... Yet they one did films like "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Paths of Glory"... Are these days gone? or can we have some hope that we'll have again a decent WW1 film from the aforementioned neighbourhood from LA? Gloria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMG65 Posted 26 December , 2005 Share Posted 26 December , 2005 'There's A Devil In The Drum' would be the best. It could be done at a price Channel 4 or the BBC could afford and so spare us from the 'How America Won Every War' version of History (Objective Burma, Patton, U -50000000 etc). Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Lowrey Posted 27 December , 2005 Share Posted 27 December , 2005 Fips: Legendary U-Boat Commander 1915-1918 Best wishes, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aconnolly Posted 27 December , 2005 Share Posted 27 December , 2005 (edited) Zeebrugge, St George's Day by Barrie Pitt. I've not read enough about the raid to know how good the book is, but just the bravery of those men and the scenes on the Mole in the right director's hands.... Regards Andrew Edited 27 December , 2005 by aconnolly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 27 December , 2005 Share Posted 27 December , 2005 Colonel Paddy - except no-one would believe it was true! WW2 Devil in the Drum would be excellent .... but also doff my cap to Langley B's favourite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMcNay Posted 27 December , 2005 Share Posted 27 December , 2005 I've often thought McCrae's Battalion would make a good film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Blanchard Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 'Storm of Steel' by Junger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 I'd like to see "A covenant with death" by John Harris. Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 The War The Infantry Knew; covers some of the above plus a couple of poets/authors and is full of characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunmore44 Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 Their is a film out early next year called "Merry Christmas or joueux noel about the xmas truce on Christmas day 1914, the film is with British, French and German actors go to: http://www.merrychristmas-themovie.com/ for more information good to see the europeans doing a war for once. otherwise if Hollywood got to make the film they would try and change history again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Saunders Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps would definitely get my vote. Also in the running would be A Life Apart (6/West Kents from 1916) and Old Soldiers Never Die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkalotloudly Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 "The whistlers room" a very well observed book would make a very good film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 28 December , 2005 Share Posted 28 December , 2005 "Old Soldiers"......... for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 Both of Frank Richards books would make a superb film following on one another. A large slice of the history of the British Empire covered, several minor and one major war, as well as the changes in the army itself, social change etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 One can get rather tired of our British cousins sniping at Hollywood and its attempts to rewrite the history of WWII. Hollywood makes movies for American consumers primarily and if foreign distribution occurs, all the better, but this somewhat superior attitude toward the "colonials" bothers me a bit. Of course we must not forget Great Britains contributions to winning of World War Two. "The Man Who Never Was" "Cockleshell Heros" "Dambusters" "In Which We Serve" "Immortal Battalion" "The Battle of Britain"and "Mrs Minever" were never slanted toward the British effort, were they? Lets face, truth be known, the Russians probably did more to win WWII than anyone else. Like the Confederate General Pickett, touring the battlefield at Gettysburg after the Civil War, was queried by his followers as to why his charge, so carefully planned, failed. Picketts reply was "Well, I think the Yankees had something to do with it." The winning of WWII was a combined effort of the forces of GB, Canada, OZ, NZ, USA and Russia. Please stop trashing the United States. Trash Hollywood instead. DrB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 Maybe it's best if we don't play this game.....Hollywood might be watching..... Hey, DrB - I was trashing Hollywood. And, to be honest, they have made some good war movies (Platoon is one of my favourites); it's just that...well...Errol Flynn and Objective Burma started a ball rolling. Mrs Miniver was made in Hollywood (and Winston Churchill felt it had a lot to do with bringing America in on our side, so fair play). It's only that on this side of the pond films like U whatever it was set the teeth on edge, with Hollywood effectively re-writing history to suit their agenda. And don't (please) let's start on Braveheart - that was a bloody Aussie having a pop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gericht 1914 Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 The winning of WWII was a combined effort of the forces of GB, Canada, OZ, NZ, USA and Russia. ...and the rest!!! (SA, India, etc. etc. etc.) d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 For Steven Broomfield...no offense, my "rant" is over. We must never forget that no one country was responsible for winning any war. It was a joint effort, and to paraphrase Orwell "All countries are equal, it is just that some countries are more equal than others." My studies of history have led me to believe that all countries are inherently somewhat nasty when it comes to political manouvers. My Pollyannas have all been smashed and diplomacy is the fine art of saying "Nice doggie" while you are hunting for a bigger stick. The problem with all that is that it is the younger men which must pay the price for their fathers gaffes. I have seen it from both sides. The fighting and the dispatching of men to fight. Both suck. DrB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gericht 1914 Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 I've often thought McCrae's Battalion would make a good film. Totally in agreement with this. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 ...and the rest!!! (SA, India, etc. etc. etc.) ....France, Poland, China...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gericht 1914 Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 'Storm of Steel' by Junger. ...and this. (though I fear it would turn into some sort of dire "Wheels of Terror" by Sven Hassel if portrayed on the silver screen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gericht 1914 Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 I'd like to see "A covenant with death" by John Harris. Ian. ...and definately this! Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gericht 1914 Posted 29 December , 2005 Share Posted 29 December , 2005 ....France, Poland, China...... ...and even (eventually) Italy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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