What's your favorite war movie?

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Exiled_Child said:
Oh, I bet you’d really love it! It’s such a good movie! It’s an anti-war black comedy. I’m not sure how to describe it without giving away too much of the story, however…:o James Garner did a superb job though, and yeah, I think his performance was definitely engaging. I think if you liked Dr. Strangelove you would like Emily.
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I like James Garner. He was one of my favorie actors ever since his Maverick days. I think he was Maverick or do I have him confused with someone else?
 
7_Sorrows said:
I like James Garner. He was one of my favorie actors ever since his Maverick days. I think he was Maverick or do I have him confused with someone else?
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No, he was Maverick. The Rockford Files is still one of my favorite shows as well.

Garner was a real-life war hero BTW. Per Wiki he fought in the Korean War for 14 months, as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Team. “He was wounded twice, first in the face and hand by shrapnel fire from a mortar round, and the second time in the buttocks from friendly fire from U.S. fighter jets as he dove headfirst into a foxhole. Garner received the Purple Heart in Korea for the first injury. He qualified for a second Purple Heart (eligibility requirement: “As the result of friendly fire while actively engaging the enemy”), but he did not actually receive it until 1983, 32 years after it had happened. Garner was a self-described “scrounger” for his company in Korea, a role he later played in The Great Escape[19] and The Americanization of Emily.”
 
I love military aircraft. So obviously I like films that involve aerial combat. My favorite war film is “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” set during the Korean War with William Holden, Grace Kelly and Fredric March. Here’s a clip from this excellent film. And here’s one more.

Peace, Mark
 
Mark121359 said:
I love military aircraft. So obviously I like films that involve aerial combat. My favorite war film is “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” set during the Korean War with William Holden, Grace Kelly and Fredric March. Here’s a clip from this excellent film. And here’s one more.

Peace, Mark
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This movie was just on the other day and I watched most of it.
It was good. Mickey Rooney was in it too. I didn’t like the ending though.
 
A good case can be made for **All Quiet on the Western Front **(the Original version) as the best (anti) war movie ever made. I am surprised that no one mentioned it on this thread.

Another very good war movie not mentioned is **The Train **starring Burt Lancaster which was based on an actual WWII attempt to save Western art masterpieces from being looted by the Nazis.

Another very good movie about Navy SEALs in Africa is **Tears of the Sun **starring Bruce Willis.
 
PoliSciProf said:
A good case can be made for **All Quiet on the Western Front **(the Original version) as the best (anti) war movie ever made. I am surprised that no one mentioned it on this thread.

Another very good war movie not mentioned is **The Train **starring Burt Lancaster which was based on an actual WWII attempt to save Western art masterpieces from being looted by the Nazis.

Another very good movie about Navy SEALs in Africa is **Tears of the Sun **starring Bruce Willis.
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The Train was good. I have not seen the Bruce Willis movie you mention.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I like James Garner. He was one of my favorie actors ever since his Maverick days. I think he was Maverick or do I have him confused with someone else?
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Oh, I’m sorry, :o I didn’t see your post 'til just now! But you’re right, back in the eighties James Garner did play Matlock, and before that he played Rockford. It felt a little weird the first time I watched Emily, because I’d always thought he was forever typecast as the man of action/leading man hero type of character, and that isn’t quite who he played in that film. He actually would have actually made a really great comic actor if he’d chased those roles, because he was hilarious in Emily, in a subtle low key sort of way.🙂 At least I found him brilliantly funny in that film. I guess that could partly be because those sorts of cynical characters really appeal to me, though.🤷
 
Exiled_Child said:
Oh, I’m sorry, :o I didn’t see your post 'til just now! But you’re right, back in the eighties James Garner did play Matlock, and before that he played Rockford. It felt a little weird the first time I watched Emily, because I’d always thought he was forever typecast as the man of action/leading man hero type of character, and that isn’t quite who he played in that film. He actually would have actually made a really great comic actor if he’d chased those roles, because he was hilarious in Emily, in a subtle low key sort of way.🙂 At least I found him brilliantly funny in that film. I guess that could partly be because those sorts of cynical characters really appeal to me, though.🤷
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I think Maverick was the tv western he was in. He was good in Murphy’s Romance and he was funny in a movie he made with Doris Day back in the 60’s. So he was good in action, comedy and drama
 
7_Sorrows said:
I think Maverick was the tv western he was in. He was good in Murphy’s Romance and he was funny in a movie he made with Doris Day back in the 60’s. So he was good in action, comedy and drama
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Oops! I just realized I should have said Maverick, not Matlock. Anyway, I have fond memories of him because I associate him with my grandparents. They were big fans of his work, and come to think of it, I bet they were also fond of Emily. I just remember watching Rockford Files with them when I was a kid. I’m going to seek out some of his films, purely because I miss my grandparents so much.
 
Exiled_Child said:
Oops! I just realized I should have said Maverick, not Matlock. Anyway, I have fond memories of him because I associate him with my grandparents. They were big fans of his work, and come to think of it, I bet they were also fond of Emily. I just remember watching Rockford Files with them when I was a kid. I’m going to seek out some of his films, purely because I miss my grandparents so much.
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Check out Murphy’s Romance and his movie with Doris Day - I think it was called Move Over Darling, but I might be wrong.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Check out Murphy’s Romance and his movie with Doris Day - I think it was called Move Over Darling, but I might be wrong.
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I definitely will; thanks for the recommendation.🙂 I might even try to find it tonight.
 
A real guilty pleasure, since its about grand larceny in time of war

Kelly’s Heros circa 1969, starring Clint Eastwood (Kelly) Telly Savalas (Joe), Donald Sutherland (Oddball), Gavin Macleod (Moriarity), Donald Rickles, Carroll O’Conner, and (Harry) Dean Stanton
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
A real guilty pleasure, since its about grand larceny in time of war

Kelly’s Heros circa 1969, starring Clint Eastwood (Kelly) Telly Savalas (Joe), Donald Sutherland (Oddball), Gavin Macleod (Moriarity), Donald Rickles, Carroll O’Conner, and (Harry) Dean Stanton
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Along the same line was “The Dirty Dozen” with much of the same cast except it starred Lee Marvin. 😉
 
Yesterday Von Ryan’s Express and In Harm’s Way were on tv. Good movies.
I remember going to the drive in with my dad, a WWII vet who fought the nazis, to see Von Ryan’s Express when I was a kid.
 
The Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne. You got to see the end!
 
OK, I know it’s not a “movie,” but I have to mention the documentary series “Victory at Sea.”

The orchestral score is by Richard Rodgers and is worth the price of the DVD series alone.
 
drforjc said:
OK, I know it’s not a “movie,” but I have to mention the documentary series “Victory at Sea.”

The orchestral score is by Richard Rodgers and is worth the price of the DVD series alone.
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That’s a good choice.

And unrelated, is “South Pacific” a drama, play or what?? Probably pretty good. May be more of a love story.

Can’t forget “From here to eternity” either, I think it is called.

There are a number of movies that are probably forgotten about all together.

“Bridge over the River Kwai” is another good one.
 
Path_Finder said:
That’s a good choice.

And unrelated, is “South Pacific” a drama, play or what?? Probably pretty good. May be more of a love story.
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“South Pacific” is a musical. And while I like “From Here to Eternity” it’s more of a soap opera about the military personnel on a base, rather than an actual war movie. That is, it seems to me there should be some actual war combat for a movie to be considered a war movie (although I believe that disqualifies “Stalag 17.”)
 
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