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To: defconw

“Battle of the Bulge” was pretty accurate. Not a great war flick but it was underrated.


11 posted on 11/07/2014 5:49:31 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
“Battle of the Bulge” was pretty accurate.

Are you kidding? That was one of the most factually inaccurate films about WWII starting with those American tanks the Germans were using.

18 posted on 11/07/2014 5:51:26 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley 2016!!!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yeah, the German M-48 Patton tanks advancing across the Ardennes desert really screamed verisimilitude.


23 posted on 11/07/2014 5:53:01 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The movie “Battle of the Bulge” was denounced by former President (and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WW2) Dwight D. Eisenhower soon after its release in a press conference due to its glaring historical inaccuracies.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2


28 posted on 11/07/2014 5:54:27 PM PST by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Battle of the Bulge” was pretty accurate. Not a great war flick but it was underrated.


Uh, that’s a joke, right? Did you not catch that the battle went from being in a snowbound forest to a Spanish desert?
Also, consider the ending. Pretty sure the Germans didn’t just run out of gas and walk home.

That being said, Robert Shaw gave a great performance.


65 posted on 11/07/2014 6:13:40 PM PST by rbg81
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Battle of the Bulge” was pretty accurate. Not a great war flick but it was underrated.


That was one of the very worst WW II movies of all time for many reasons.

Maybe you mean The Longest Day.


77 posted on 11/07/2014 6:22:41 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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