Monday, May 25, 2015

Beakerkin favorite war films

In time for Memorial Day

1) Midway Charlton Heston in perhaps his least appreciated film role.

2) The longest Day John Wayne, Red Buttons, Robert Mitchum, Eddy Alberto, Sean
Connery, Richard Burton

3) Bridge at Remagen George Seagal, Ben Gazara, EG Marshall
4) Where Eagles Dare Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton
5) The Great Escape Steve McQueen, David McCallum, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, James Garmer and more
6) The Dirty Dozen Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland and more
7) The Battle of The Bulge historically inaccurate but fun to watch
8) The Sands of Iwo Jima The Duke and Forrest Tucker.
9$ Pork Chip Hill
10) Kelly's Heroes Eastwood, Savalas, Rickles, Carol OConnor and Uncle Leo from Seinfeld. Lots of fun

Now some of you might ponder why Saving Private Ryan and the Vietnam Films did not make the cut.
I prefer the old school actors and ensemble casts. Bridge over the River Kwai is a great film, but I won't watch it multiple times. Heartbreak Ridge is underrated and fun. The Buccaneer with Heston and Yul Brynner could have easily made the list.

3 comments:

The_Editrix said...


2) The longest Day John Wayne, Red Buttons, Robert Mitchum, Eddy Alberto, Sean Connery, Richard Burton

I can't remember Richard Burton, Beak. Are you sure? That said, I think The Longest Day is a bit overrated.

3) Bridge at Remagen George Seagal, Ben Gazara, EG Marshall

I watched that, but can't remember anything.

5) The Great Escape Steve McQueen, David McCallum, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, James Garmer and more

Another overrated film. Certainly not bad, but not THAT marvellous.

7) The Battle of The Bulge historically inaccurate but fun to watch

Is that the film where Robert Shaw, dyed blonde, tried to look German? It was funny indeed! I liked "Panzerlied" ;-), but can't remember the rest.

On the whole, I'm not all that much into war films. I liked best "The Guns of Navarone", but I seem to remember that's a British one.

DO publish a list of your favourite westerns.

beakerkin said...

Richard Burton was shot down and at the end with a lost soldier and a dead Nazi with the boots on the wrong feet.

Ducky's here said...

No foreign war films, Beak?

Always seeing the world through strictly American eyes?