What Are Your Favourite Non-Duke War Movies?

Also, Lee Marvin's The Big Red One.

attack
the big red one
all quite on the western front
battleground
battle of the bulge

Though it doesn't technically qualify as a war movie, in that it doesn't contain scenes of armed conflict, one of my favorite military movies from the Fifties is "Sayonara", starring Brando, Red Buttons and James Garner.

It's probably my favorite Brando film, with the possible exception of "Godfather".

Three more of my favorite non-Duke war movies are "Wake Island", "Sailor of the King" (called "Singlehanded" in the UK) and "Run Silent, Run Deep".

"Patton"

If you're going to do Wake Island, then why not do Guadalcanal Diary, Air Force, Destination Tokyo.

the fighting sullivans
cry of battle

"Saving Private Ryan"

Macarthur!
Patton!
Midway!
Tora,Tora, Tora!
U571
Battle of the Bulge. Just to name a few.

I saw these today at Sams Club, had never seen them before. It was called 20th Centry Fox Classics and there were two of them with four war movies in each one.

The first one had,

The Desert Rats
Von Ryans Express
Twelve O'Clock High
The Young Lions

The second had,

The Blue Max
The Desert Fox
The Immortal Sergeant
Sink the Bismarck

Not a bad collection. I guess it's part of Fox's classic collections of which there are about 18 volumes of various movies. I didn't notice the price, but on Amazon they're about $20.

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I saw these today at Sams Club, had never seen them before. It was called 20th Centry Fox Classics and there were two of them with four war movies in each one.

The first one had,

The Desert Rats
Von Ryans Express
Twelve O'Clock High
The Young Lions

The second had,

The Blue Max
The Desert Fox
The Immortal Sergeant
Sink the Bismarck

Not a bad collection. I guess it's part of Fox's classic collections of which there are about 18 volumes of various movies. I didn't notice the price, but on Amazon they're about $20.

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Hi Jim, you cant go wrong with these. The Desert Rats and the Desert Fox are related to each other and James Mason plays Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel in both. In fact, I just rewatched both of them yesterday and this morning ;-)) The rest are all good movies and the "worst" of those eight IMO-are The Immortal Sergeant and The Young Lions-and those are still good movies.

Might I suggest a few to you:

Hannibal Brooks, The Command, Darby's Rangers and The Tanks Are Coming.

In: The Desert Fox, they use quite a bit of real footage which blends in nicely--check out the footage of the Opening British Artillery Barrage on El Alamein.

Yeah, Karl, I've seen all of those in both sets and have probably seen The Desert Fox, and Desert Rats a few times. I've seen The Immortal Sergeant a few times also and is one movie I've always liked. Out of all of them, I think The Blue Max is the only one I've seen once. Shoot, I remember going to see The Young Lions & Von Ryans Express at the theaters when they first came out. Seen Twelve O'clock High many times on tv and my favorite part is when Gregory Pecks character, Gen. Savage, first goes to take over the bomber group and raking everybody over the coals because they were too nonchalant about the way things are run.

That is like a top10 for me:

Wake Island by John Farrow
Gung Ho! by Ray Enright
Where Eagles Dare by Brian G. Hutton
A Bridge Too Far by Richard Attenborough
Heartbrake Ridge by Clint Eastwood
Hamburger Hill by John Irvin
84C MoPic by Patrick Sheame Duncan
Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick
We Were Soldiers by Randall Wallace
Missing in Action by Joseph Zito

I don't really watch a lot of war movies. But there are a few that I watch and re- watch.
La vache et le Prisonnier with Fernadel and La Grande Vadrouille with Louis de Funès & Bourvil because they are lovely memories of watching with my dad and laughing our heads off.
Other films are:
Der Untergang
Het verdriet van Belgie
Zwartboek
Le Toubib
and then the english spoken
Operation Petticoat
The Patriot
Von Ryan's Express
The Great Escape
The Wild Geese
The Sea Wolves
Escape to Athena