OT: Favorite War Movies

[DCausey]

Thanks, B.T.!

It's been quite a year, but things are better now. I didn't forget you all, and it's good to be back.

I must not have read closely enough, but then I was very excited to talk about this movie!

- Dave

[Graebarde]

Eight Iron Men (1952) Lee Marvin WW2 story of a squad on the line.
Hell is for Heros (1962) Steve McQueen WW2 Seigfried Line
The Big Red One (1980) Lee Marvin The WW1 vet fighthing his second war over the same turf.

Seven Samurai (1953) directed by Akira Kurosawa.
This is my all time favorite, though with English subtitles and LONG (~3 hours) is sort of a war movie, set in medieval Japan and the basis for the US western The Magnificent Seven.

I like the WW2 and Korean war movies made in the 50s and early 60s, when they used regular explosions rather than can of gasoline fireballs for grenades etc. Plus many of the actors were veterans of the wars.. Lee Marvin was a Marine, wounded on Saipan that got him a medical discharge.