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Mike, please PM it to me again (yours) 
I want to make sure I wrote it down correctly.
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Posts from The Ringo Kid in thread „Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Stauffenberg“
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Ringo you should be their technical expert !! A quick email to them and you could be on location in Germany and getting paid for it.
Mike
Heh heh, thanks for the compliment ;-)) It would be nice to be paid for a change, doing something I really like.
Maybe someday, i'll get someone to post a picture or two, of my German Artillery Majors tunic and visor? Just for reference purposes.
I will add (for Stumpy's sake) that the visored cap looks good as well as its insignia--which is stamped aluminum. Also, the bottleneck green collar on the tunic is spot-on.
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Words fail me
. but my most strong feeling is he is secretly making 'Allo 'Allo!" :teeth_smile:
For our friends in USA this was a comedy series set in France during World War II similar to Are you being Served / Carry On Benny Hill style comedy
Spoof of World War II. René Artois runs a café in France during World War II. He is also an unwilling agent of the Germans, mostly under the command of Col. Kurt von Strohm, and of the French Resistance, under the command of Michelle Dubois ("Listen very carefully; I shall say this only once"). René is married to aged Edith, who is the worst singer in the world, but he finds that young women find him sexy. Most of the plots include planning the murder of the commanding German officer, General Erich von Klinkerhoffen, as well as the ownership of a painting called The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies--a painting that everybody would love to get their hands on. He has also two downed idiot British airman who, as time goes by, are impossible to get rid of. The main opposition is the insane SS officer, Otto Flick. René tries to complete the German and the FR's plans, even though he's a coward and wonders if he's going to get out of the war alive.
Between his weird views and this movie his career could be in toilet!!
Mike
I admit, he does not look too bad (as a typical German Officer with an eyepatch) but, I don't think he's capable of playing the Count.
The uniform looks OK (details) except that his tunic is not the proper Grey-Green color (too light on the color and does not look natural) Where are his decorations? no EK1st, no Wound Badge in Gold etc-no ribbonbar-no eastern front and EK2 ribbons in the 2nd buttonhole of his tunic.
The scalloped pockets are OK--but not great. Its also hard to tell that his tunic had French Cuffs. At least they got the Carmine Red striping (for General Staff Officers) correct on his breeches. I can't see the detail enough on the Collartabs and Shoulderboards--to see how accurately those look. The breast eagle looks decent, belt, buckle etc.
I can't tell if his peaked visored cap has the correct carmine piping or not and it does not look like his collartabs have carmine-0-they look to be white-for Infantry--which is WRONG. As a collector, that is unexcusable. However, I still might give the movie a watching--just for laughs.
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Hi EJ, thanks for letting me know about this one. ANd it seems if I recently heard on some program that had mentioned something about Basehart in that role. Ill be looking forward to seeing this one since I have not seen it before.
Also, thanks for mentioning He Walked By Night, that was another excellent film with Basehart at his best-or near best. -
Don't worry, Ringo, unlike Crap-ner, Rich Basehart actually had some acting talent!!!!!
Heh heh. Basehart is the best at his craft ;-)) Of all the actors I really like, there are few who come close to being really great actors in the truest sense of the word. Movies like: Hitler, Decision Before Dawn, Fixed Bayonets and Time Limit; are what did it for me to make Basehart my equal with John Wayne--equal in different ways of course. -
Its kind of a running joke for me now on the C O S T N E R thing. I mean, I like to say come on and just see what happens, but if people don't like him, to each his own. I would say he atleast has done some good for the western genre, more then anybody else in Hollywood lately that is. I can take it if you guys don't like him. I just find it funny to comment when everybody gets after him. Heck, even Kevin made his last name a dirty word, that takes alot of dislike to go that far!! :teeth_smile: :teeth_smile:
Hi Todd, heh heh, im still not a fan of his but, I did like him in The Untouchables. But yeah, I too thought it was funny that Kevin (jokingly) made C******s last name a "dirty word." When I saw that while trying to post, almost made me fall out of my chair laughing.
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Hi Todd, I know you enjoy watching Kevin C,o,s,t,n,e,r, so I quit poking fun at him sometime ago--not that your saying I have done otherwise ;-)) I'd hate to see someone poke fun at Richard Basehart--with everyone knowing how much I like this actor. By the way, I will be watching him in "Fixed Bayonets" tonight. My last order came in today
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Hi Ringo
I think it is called Valkyrie at the moment.
Have to admit it is jaw dropping. I just cant see Cruise in this role either. There was talk awhile back of him remaking Escape from Colditz but that seems to have disappeared.
This one seems to be filming so it must be real. Hold on I will just pinch myself.
Yep Its Real. Scary or what.
Mike
Hi Mike, thanks. Valkyrie eh? I'll be keeping my eyes and ears from stuff about this movie. I sure hope they do do a remake of Escape from Colditz--i'd be interested in seeing that as well. A few years ago--it was rumored that Cruise was going to play Erich Hartmann in some WWII flick. I am HOPING that Cruise will not do that role, if that movie ever gets off the ground.
Also, I would find it strange that hollywoodland would want to make a movie about the worlds top most scoring Air Ace in history--who happened to be a German flying in Gorings Luftwaffe--and made all except 4, of his kills on the Eastern Front.
Argh, I was hoping you were only having a nightmare--ugg, it is scary. I wonder what Stauffenbergs family thinks about this? While were on a similar subject: at least Cruise will not be portraying Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) in a movie. I actually met one of his great grandsons on a train in Germany in 2000. I'd hate to see such a role--go to a whacked out Ami.
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Part of me wants to laugh at Cruise's latest film project and part is curious to see what he makes of it. At least he is in the right ball park age wise as Stauffenberg was 37 when he died. Could this be another Oscar winning eye patch performance?
I cant wait to hear Ringo's view
Mike
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf[1] von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.
The makers of Tom Cruise's latest film say they have the relevant permits needed to film in Germany, despite being banned from military sites.
German defence minister Franz Josef Jung this week said the filmmakers could not shoot at certain sites, because Cruise is a Scientologist.
Berlin sees it as a cult masquerading as a religion to make money - a view Scientology leaders strongly reject.
But the head of Berlin's Babelsberg Studios said permits were in place.
In Valkyrie, Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler using a bomb hidden in a briefcase, scheduled for release next year.
'Democratic order'
Cruise's producing partner Paula Wagner said Cruise's own convictions had no relation to the film's content.
"Personal beliefs have absolutely no bearing on the movie's plot or themes," she said.
Scientology has been monitored in Germany in the belief that its activities are "directed against the free democratic order" in the country.
Carl Woebken, head of Babelsberg studios, told the Reuters news agency: "They have given us permission like they have done for other Stauffenberg films before."
The location include the so-called Bendlerblock where Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were shot after the attempt to kill Hitler failed.
The Bendlerblock is located in what is the now the Defence Ministry complex in Berlin.
However, part of it is run by the German Resistance Memorial Centre and not the ministry, and Babelsberg Studios says it will shoot there.
"From our point of view, everything is ready to go," added Mr Woebken. Valkyrie - named after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename - will be directed by Bryan Singer and co-star British actor Kenneth Branagh.
Hi Mike, im stunned. At the risk of sounding bad but, Tom Cruise is no Col Count Klaus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg - nor do I think he could even fill his shoes--unlike that of James Mason portraying General Rommel in two movies. They NEED a good German actor for that part. Tom Cruise will not be a good Stauffenberg in my eyes. Arrrrrrgggghh, this MUST be a nightmare that im having? Cruise as the Colonel. I tell you what, they BETTER give some good accounting as to the Colonels military service on the Eastern Front--showing actions which caused his serious wounds--missing fingers--eye-etc.
I guess IF tom cruise HAS to play an honorable German officer--at least he aint going to play: Major Erich "Bubi" Alfred Hartmann (352 air victories) after all. I would sure hate to see tom cruise fit in some of his scientology trying to portray this Gentleman. By the way, I actually met Colonel Hartmann, at an air show in 1993--got an autographed photo of him. I would sure hate to see someone less--such as Cruise--portray this air ace of aces.
Mike, im still stunned. What is the name of this movie?
