Posts from WaynamoJim in thread „Battle of the Bulge (1965)“

Quote from Redcap

As an ex Military Policeman, with a lot of experience in traffic control, I found Ty Hardins portrayal of an MP quite ludicrous. Then again being more of a fictionlised account of the battle it should not have surprised me.
Redcap

Yes Redcap but, don't forget, Hardins character was really a German soldier posing as an American and the MP part was a total ruse as to confuse the Americans and cause alot of chaos behind the lines. And in the real Battle of the Bulge, the Germans did have many of their own English speaking soldiers dress up in GI clothes and go behind the lines to disrupt everything they could.

The movie came out in 65 but, I think I first saw it in 67 when I was stationed in S. Korea at the camp theater. Even then, I thought it was entertaining but, knew that it was just a fictionalized account of the battle. The very end of the movie though, was quite silly. It showed the Germans all walking back to Germany like the war was over and they were going home. Even the one soldier said, they've quit, they're going home.