Best War Film Part 2

[ozzy72]

[quote]You must mean the original UK Monopoly board, because the original original board had street names from Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA .

[ozzy72]

LOL! I just found out that there showing it again here!

I suppose this sums up my level of excitement over the series.
If it was to show again, starting tonight, I wouldn't be bothered watching it. Maybe in 12 months, but not now.  ;D

P.S. I have been known to watch the same movie three or four times in a week.  ;)

[BFMF]

I know this is off topic but.....

I read that Monopoly was invented by a fairly poor person during the great depression. The guy didn't have any money so he made a game where you can play with money, that's why you can buy property for $150 instead of $150,000 in the game.

There is a small town that i used to live in that made a monopoly game for the town but had the different bussineses and was modernized with more realistic prices for properties\taxes\rent etc

[DougC-3]

[quote]
Clark Gable was apparently a bomber pilot (although he was more "he-man" than Stewart etc.

[ozzy72]

Sounds like an interesting direction to take things in, at least for a little while.
I know David Niven was in a Comando unit in France, but don't know what he got up to (He didn't say much in either of his books).
Errol Flynn chose not to join up. He was still an Australian (don't know if he ever did Yankize) at the outbreak of war in England (hence in Aust.)  ;D

BTW. Interesting bit about monopoly, Andrew. I always wondered why everything was so cheap, even in the sixties....................lol  ;D

[Hagar]

I saw a movie where he played as himself but i forget the title

The film was named "To Hell & Back" (1949). I must have seen it several times. Audie Murphy was the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II.
http://www.jrotc.org/audie_murphy.htm
Murphy was also a struggling actor, writer, poet & songwriter. His autobiography featuring those wartime exploits became a best-seller & Murphy played himself in the film of the same name. Quote "The movie, To Hell and Back, held the record as Universal's highest grossing picture until 1975 when it was finally surpassed by the movie Jaws."
This was his one big success. Although he made many other films he was a soldier turned actor, unlike the star actors (Stewart, Gable, Niven etc.) who joined the services to do their bit. Murphy was killed in an air crash on May 28, 1971 at the age of 46.

[Hagar]

[quote]
This is about all The Film Encyclopeda has to say about it:

[BFMF]

The film was named "To Hell & Back" (1949). I must have seen it several times. Audie Murphy was the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II.
http://www.jrotc.org/audie_murphy.htm
Murphy was also a struggling actor, writer, poet & songwriter. His autobiography featuring those wartime exploits became a best-seller & Murphy played himself in the film of the same name. Quote "The movie, To Hell and Back, held the record as Universal's highest grossing picture until 1975 when it was finally surpassed by the movie Jaws."
This was his one big success. Although he made many other films he was a soldier turned actor, unlike the star actors (Stewart, Gable, Niven etc.) who joined the services to do their bit. Murphy was killed in an air crash on May 28, 1971 at the age of 46.

Yeah, it was "To Hell and Back" that I watched that Audi Murphy played as himself

[ozzy72]

I've read both Niven's books.
"The Moons a Ballon" is an Autobiography from childhood to the time of writing ('70's)
"Bring on the empty horses" was a more informative book of his Hollywood days. There is a large section on Flynn (the two batched together) for some years.

I just recall Niven, when discribing his decision to go to England and enlist in 1939, that Flynn, being Australian, "decided not to go and I respected the man's privacy enough not to ask why"

There is an interesting story about the name of the second book "Bring on....." but I have to go to bed now so I'll pop it in later.  ;D

[BFMF]

I didn't realize James Stewart was a bomber Pilot during WW2 at all.

[ozzy72]

David Niven was a member of Phantom during WWII. This was a signals unit attatched to the SAS.
Can't remember what rank he reach (officer, inevitably with his accent).
He had a fair bit of trouble when he returned to Hollywood after the war, as he'd walked out on them...

Ozzy

[BFMF]

I was told that James Stewart played in a WW2 movie. Does anyone know what the name of it is???

[DougC-3]

David Niven was a member of Phantom during WWII. This was a signals unit attatched to the SAS.
Can't remember what rank he reach (officer, inevitably with his accent).
He had a fair bit of trouble when he returned to Hollywood after the war, as he'd walked out on them...

Ozzy

To paraphrase from The Film Encyclopedia, he came from two generations of professional soldiers (he was a Scot after all), and served with the Highland Light Infantry in Malta before becoming a world drifter.

[DougC-3]

[quote]
I'm sure you know by now that I could never resist a challenge.

[Professor Brensec]

OK! I'm fresh now. As I promised last night (my time), I would relate an interesting (and I think hilarious) story about the title of Niven's second book "Bring on the Empty Horses".

It contains to expletives which, unfortunately have to be included otherwise the whole story does not work. So, as it's just the same word used twice, I can, at least make it obvious what the word is. It's F***. Just the four letters, no "ing" at the end.

Niven and Flynn were starring together in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (hey another war movie!). I don't recall the name of the director but I think he was Hungarian or similar, it doesn't matter. They both were continually taking the mickey out of the director because of his terrible English.
A particular scene (at the end of the charge) involved a number of "riderless horses" to go galloping across the screen (to represent the carnage that took place, so many men had gone down). The director yelled through his megaphone "Bring on the Empty Horses", to which both Niven and Flynn collapsed in a fit of laughter, imitating what he had said and how he had found his own English term for a "riderless horse".
The director became furious and went straight over to them. He said he had had enough of their silly English bafoonery (or words to that effect). Then went on to say this:
"You smart English with your impossible language think you are better, huh. You think I know F*** nothing. Well I have news for you, I know F*** all."

To this, of course, the whole cast fell over laughing.  ;D