Angels one five TV tomorrow

🙂 Anyone ever seen this film, the films music score is on one of those Great War movie theme albums, which features all the usual favorites, but never seen this one on telly at all

I have only seen this once, too long ago to remember the year but it could have been late sixties or early seventies.

Brian.

I have to say that Burt Lancaster was an inspired choice of actor for The Train, any other Hollywood actor could have been a disaster, pity he couldn’t speak French, or maybe he could and didn’t need to.

I’m not usually a big Burt Lancaster fan but he seems perfect for this role.

The IMDB website has some interesting trivia on ‘The Train’ including the fact that Burt got the original director fired and in doing so produced a more ‘action’ orientated film. Good choice methinks.

I do like ‘Went the Day Well?’ also but for quite different reasons.

Although half propaganda with a hopeless plot it’s very interesting for the attitudes of the times.

Another film of the period I’d recommend is Sir John Mills in ‘We Dive at Dawn’.

The Hill

The Hill – TCM channel, 11.00 Sunday. A must see.

From what I saw there were a lot of rather dubious helicopters, some girls wearing a very strange version of 1940s hairstyles and a protracted scene or two in a ‘typical’ wartime pub where they were all having a jolly good time.

The PVR just throws up a still on fast forward, and no sound of course so I just saw about 120 ‘snapshots’. Enough to convince me it wasn’t anything worth wasting any of my diminishing number of minutes left on earth watching.

Moggy

I’d never actually seen Jackie’s Girls, so I set the PVR to record it, then ran through the entire thing at x60 fast forward.

That was all I needed to convince me to wipe it from the hard disc.

It brought new meaning to the word ‘awful’

Moggy

Excuse my ignorance, but is the one with helicopter assaults on ‘Fortress Europe’ with the landscape behind Calais looking like a Spagetti western.

I’d never actually seen Jackie’s Girls, so I set the PVR to record it, then ran through the entire thing at x60 fast forward.

That was all I needed to convince me to wipe it from the hard disc.

It brought new meaning to the word ‘awful’

Moggy

Ah but the cognoscenti amongst us are watching The Secret War of Jackie’s Girls on Ch 5

Moggy

Are you sure about that Moggy????

Get your “choppers” out guys, there’s gals on the box.

Think I’ll keep mine in it’s big red bag!

According to this link, it was:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36483&highlight=Angels

Mystery 110

Being off work with the flu, it was perfect viewing for me.
But now I’m wondering if the Me 110/ Bf 110 seen crashed in the film, is the example in the BoB Museum at Hendon? Or where there any other examples left in the UK circa 1954?

Methinks that Spitfire was possibly MK297, or one of the other ex-COGEA Spits?

There was a thread about another clipped-wing/D-Day-striped Spit before.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61300

Was not the Spitfire MH434.

I don’t think it was. The Spitfire in the clip had clipped wingtips and blanked-off cannons.

Plus, at the time the film was released, I think ‘434 was owned by Tim Davies.

‘Went the day well.’

‘In which we serve.’

‘Nine men.’

Regards,

kev35

‘The Hill’ has to be seen to be believed, superb cast, not your typical ‘war’ film but IMHO one of the best films ever made.

Another not-often-seen war film I’d recommend is John Frankenheimer’s “The Train”.

Absolutely outstanding special-effects footage of a Spitfire strafing a locomotive (shot, I’m sure, from a Spitfire with original gun-camera). Some good A-26 cockpit footage also.

As for the train crashes; no CGI here. To simulate one locomotive running into another at 60mph the filmmakers simply got a real working locomotive and ran it into another at 60mph!

(Edit – found them on ‘YouTube’ – judge for yourself.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GUzTJCumuE&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsxtErEVrw&mode=related&search=

I totally agree with everything you say, I have to say that Burt Lancaster was an inspired choice of actor for The Train, any other Hollywood actor could have been a disaster, pity he couldn’t speak French, or maybe he could and didn’t need to. Was not the Spitfire MH434.

Spitfire v Locomotive

‘The Hill’ has to be seen to be believed, superb cast, not your typical ‘war’ film but IMHO one of the best films ever made.

Another not-often-seen war film I’d recommend is John Frankenheimer’s “The Train”.

Absolutely outstanding special-effects footage of a Spitfire strafing a locomotive (shot, I’m sure, from a Spitfire with original gun-camera). Some good A-26 cockpit footage also.

As for the train crashes; no CGI here. To simulate one locomotive running into another at 60mph the filmmakers simply got a real working locomotive and ran it into another at 60mph!

(Edit – found them on ‘YouTube’ – judge for yourself.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GUzTJCumuE&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsxtErEVrw&mode=related&search=

I know it’s not a warfilm as such,but what about that David Lean classic “The Sound Barrier”?.Surely one of the best black and white aviation films ever made(my avatar is a still from it).

Two other corkers that also spring to mind and rarely get an airing are “High Flight” with Anthony Newley and Leslie Phillips and “A Conflict of Wings” with I think John Gregson and Dinah Sherridan.

A good documentory that hasn’t been shown for ages is “Mitchells do fly in IMC”,the story of Jeff Hawke flying B25’s from the States to UK for the film “Hannover Street”.

Mark

Is Paris burning ?

🙂 Anyone ever seen this film, the films music score is on one of those Great War movie theme albums, which features all the usual favorites, but never seen this one on telly at all

I’m not knocking the showing of this film, in fact it’s on now, but they seem to show it every other month along with a load of other continously repeated movies, Twister for a start.
There are other, great WW2 movies that are rarely shown, what about Thin Red Line for starters, The Enemy Within was on yesterday, what a cast that was, but when was it last shown, probably we’ll get The Dam Busters again tommorrow and BoB next week, lets see some imagination, programme planners. Can anyone think of a cool WW2 movie that hasn’t been on for a while.

Many…..

However two of my favourites that don’t get the airing they deserve as (IMHO) two of the finest war films ever made are The Hill and Appointment In London.

Ah but the cognoscenti amongst us are watching The Secret War of Jackie’s Girls on Ch 5

Moggy

I’m not knocking the showing of this film, in fact it’s on now, but they seem to show it every other month along with a load of other continously repeated movies, Twister for a start.
There are other, great WW2 movies that are rarely shown, what about Thin Red Line for starters, The Enemy Within was on yesterday, what a cast that was, but when was it last shown, probably we’ll get The Dam Busters again tommorrow and BoB next week, lets see some imagination, programme planners. Can anyone think of a cool WW2 movie that hasn’t been on for a while.

Great film – a must for Hurricane fans, especially. 🙂

Sad to see it’s not yet available on DVD, when so many others are.

I ordered it on VHS from Amazon – probably the last time I’ll ever order a video cassette! :rolleyes:

The perfect reason to get a Freeview receiver for your computer, or a PVR for cable or satellite – you can record it just so you can, err, play it back later 😉 :diablo: