QuoteOriginally posted by Senta@Sep 5 2005, 03:43 PM
Hi Ringo, I shall, thank you.
Regards,
Vera[snapback]21177[/snapback]
Your quite welcome Vera. 
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QuoteOriginally posted by Senta@Sep 5 2005, 03:43 PM
Hi Ringo, I shall, thank you.
Regards,
Vera[snapback]21177[/snapback]
Your quite welcome Vera.
Hi Vera, just ask me and I'll try to help you out with our military history. 
Hi Vera, I completely agree with you. Flynn was as controversial as many of his movies were. Personally, I do not feel I need to know what a movie star does in private as it is not any of my business. I would rather just enjoy watching any movie they act in.
I have read My Wicked, Wicked Ways, many years ago. I know he was a "party animal" but that is not my concern. I just simply like watching him on TV or the big screen ;-))
I have Rio Grande on DvD but do not have She Wore A Yellow Ribbon on DvD yet. I cannot get tired of watching Rio Grande and I love the music in it as well.
Thank you Keith. Also, sometimes i'm a stickler for small details. Besides that, even with such a controversial life as he had, he is still one of my all-time favorite actors. Also, within the next few weeks I will be getting in the Errol Flynn signature collection which has They Died With Their Boots On, The Sea Hawk, Dodge City, Captain Blood and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and an additional documentary disc as well. This goes for $41.84; if interested at deepdiscountdvd.com. I also found it at Best Buy but I think it was over $50.00 bucks fo them. 
I can hardly wait for this set to arrive
Oh and if you feel the need, go to Google and type in GMIC for the Gentlemans Militaria Interest Club, look for the person with the username of: Ringo Kid ((Me)) which has an avatar of none other than Errol Flynn as Robin Hood.
Kilo, whoever told that story got an important fact wrong. Flynn was only 50 yrs old (or in his early 50's) when he passed away.
Senta, that is the one I was talking about. I'm going to check belle&blade and see if they have it on VHS or DvD.
Senta, thank you for your excellent information. I will look forward to watching those two movies next time thay are played. IF im not mistaken, I think the title for that battleship film is Battleship Potemkin, or something like that. I'll try doing a search for info about it when time permits.
Take care--C.
Hi Keith, ha haaa, I bet they were only released in Russia. Next time i'm at IMDB, i'll pay more attention....I promise.
Greetings Colorado, Senta, Ethan.
Hi Colorado, no offenses taken at all. Personally I thought he made a much better Buccaneer as well. Also I think his best role was as Robin Hood.
Hi Keith, well my schedule is somewhat different these days but I still try to get on daily if possible. I didn't know this was brought up before (I still don't know how to use that feature to bring up past subjects) 
[[Keith, yes, I got the 'gist' of your post]]
Hi Senta, I have not yet seen Uncertain Glory. Can you please tell me what it was about? Walsh, Lewis Milestone and John Ford too are my favorite Directors. I would like very much to see some wartime Russian war movies. I bet many are fantastic. I wonder if there is one made about the Battleship Potempkin (SP?) I also wonder if they made any about the capture of the Fortress City of Kolburg? I remember reading somewhere that many German prisoners were used in Russian movies. I never heard of Silver City or Montana as being movies he made. Guess i'll have to do some research. 
Hi Senta, I agree with you. I too am a big fan of They Died With Their Boots On and it was the first Western I saw Errol Flynn in. Also, because of that movie, I fell in love with Olivia de Havilland as she was and still is, a very beautiful woman. It's a shame that she never got married to Errol Flynn.
As far as Flynn movies go, I liked most of them but these are my top 5 favorites:
1) Dawn Patrol.
2) They Died With Their Boots On.
3) Sea Hawk.
4) The Adventures Of Robin Hood.
5) Desperate Journey.
Hi Senta, Errol Flynn is a favorite of mine as well. Also, when you get the chance, watch him in Dodge City--that is another great film of his. I think Alan Hale Sr and Gwinn "Big Boy" Williams are both in that excellent Western as well.
Senta, by the way, welcome to the Duke Wayne forums. Best regards Ringo Kid aka Carl.
Nice choices Colorado, i've seen only 3 of those movies and episodes from most of those TV series.
Hello Ladies.
Baby Sis, Ha ha, that's like me when I was younger. I used to put on my Cowboy gunbelt with cap firing guns, and I would wear my buckskin shirt and cowboy hat. The show always came on at 6 PM on CBS and my dad and I always watched it. Even my earliest memories of the show I only remember seeing color episodes, but I still liked the show.
We don't have Encore here either but I see ad's from them advertising their channel(s) I wish we had them as well as PLEX.
Hi Bonnie, I like watching Gunsmoke as well but, they only play the last few seasons of it in which you do not see much of Matt Dillon but see more of Festus.
I never have seen any of the first 10 or so season's and would love to see them. Wasn't Burt Reynolds in the series as a half-breed Indian? or something like that?
Viper, quite welcome and let me know what you think of the extended version after you get a chance to see it.
Hi Viper, Baby Sis,
Viper, on The Big Red One.
The original version is 43 minutes shorter. One thing about this new release is that the German Sergeant, Sergeant Schroeder, gets more screen time and you get to see that he really is a cold-blooded killer. In the original version, you basically only see him when they are in North Africa as part of Rommel's Afrika Korps. You hear a song playing on a phonograph and see Schroeder eating some food as he is approaching some of his men. One of the resting soldiers who is named Gert, winds up getting shot by Schroeder when he says that he is not going to be choking on Panzer fumes and dust and that he is no nazi fanatic like Schroeder was. Next time you see Schroeder is when the Germans are attacking the Kasserine Pass. The Ami Sgts men run away and this is where the Sgt gets shot by another German after he kills a German. That German who shot him was also Schroeder.
The next time you see Schroeder (in the original version) is when the American Sergeant's (Lee Marvin) squad is at a WWI big red one memorial and the sgt sends Kaiser to scout ahead at the large cross on that hill. This happened to be the area where the Sgt fought in WWI and was also where a horse smashed his rifle. Schroeder is seen (before the G.I's arrive) placing his men in and around the destroyed panzer and Schroeder climbs up and hides behind the large cross. Well as you know his men make a mistake which gets them all killed instead of the Americans. After the Frenchwoman's baby is born inside the knocked out Panzer, you see Schroeder running away.
Still in the original version)) the last time you see Schroeder is when WWII ended and he tries to surrender to the Ami Sgt at the end of the movie but the Sgt stabs him and leaves him for dead (not knowing that the Armistice had been signed and the war had been over for four hours (just like what had happened to him in WWI when he killed a surrendering German soldier.)
In the reconstructed version, Sergeant Schroeder is seen a few more times in non combat scenes. For instance, after the Americans had liberated an Sicilian or Italian village where Vinci's Grandmother still lived (though in the original version you do not see his Grandmother) and this is also where they are celebrating with the civilians and eating a spaghetti dinner. Well, as they leave, the Ami Sgt is looking for his helmet and a little village girl brings it to him with flowers stuck in his helmet net. Zab says: "The Kraut's are going to spot that garden a mile away" and the Sgt says: "I like the smell."
They leave the village and the little girl come shouting and running to the Sgt and indicated that he did not kiss her or say goodbye. While this is going on, you see Schroeder with some men who are about to ambush the GI's and Schroeder says something like: "Stupid American wearing flowers in his helmet" and he fires at the Ami Sgt but kills the girl instead.
More added scenes is when Schroeder is placing explosives in a German Countess's Castle and he winds up killing her later on after she admitted she hated Hitler.
At the end of the movie, and schroeder's 2nd to last appearance shows him resting and a leaflet comes floating near him, he picks it up and reads it which says: The war was over. You see him lay down his MP-40, takes off his cartridge belt and stuff, and he walks away. Next you see him saying in German: "Der Krieg ist vorbai (SP?) meaning that The War Was Over.
Well, the Ami Sgt was listening to that music box when he hears the German approaching him. The Sgt leaps up and stabs the surrendering Sgt Schroeder. After one of the G.I's finds that the "dead" Schroeder is still alive and they tend to him. The very last scene shows the Ami Sgt carrying Schroeder across his shoulders.
There are just so many added things in this version, it would take me all day to type it in. Believe me, this version is worth buying. I might buy another copy but of the original version just to have.
Baby Sis, I also liked Quigley Down Under very much. I think Tom Selleck makes a great Western actor and I also like his "Sacketts" movies.
Hi Hondo, yep, I have My Darling Clementine. I have watched it twice already, like it very much and even posted a topic on it. I always liked the film and the way it went but I like it better with the additional footage. Same thing goes for the reconstructed version of The Big Red One.
Welcome to the Club Kilo.
I don't really look at Westerns for one thing or the other, I just enjoy the vast majority of Westerns. As I get older though, I am taking a different view on when I watch Westerns. I enjoy them more when I watch them because of who is in them and not because of the story. Also, I like watching out for the character actors as well which makes it more interesting for me.
IHW, your easiest bet in finding COMBAT on DVD is to get it through http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com and this will be the cheapest you pay as well.
Hi IHW, I think Hogan's Heroes is coming out in Mid March. I'll check DDDVD.com for sure though. As far as I know, it's not yet released.
Yep, the first three seasons of COMBAT has been released. I already have the complete first season and will be starting on getting the first half of the 2nd season within a month. In about 6 weeks I should have all of season 2. All 5 seasons of COMBAT should be out by November but I think at the rate its coming out that they will all be out by Summer. Of the first season of COMBAT, i've only seen maybe 2-3 episodes of 32 episodes, to not be a 10 out of 10. Of those three, i'd give a 7-8 on a scale of 10--10 being the best of course.
Shecky Green who plays Private Braddock in the first several episodes of season one really steal the show and is great. He particurly shines in the episode called: Prisoner which also had Keenan Wynn in it as a Colonel.
