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Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "Stalag 17"(1953)
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| 1953
| Billy Wilder
Posted on 07/14/2013 1:02:51 PM PDT by ReformationFan
TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1953; bettygrable; billywilder; hogansheroes; mfasa; nevillebrand; ottopreminger; petergraves; pow; pows; robertstrauss; stalag17; wilder; williamholden; wwii
Today's feature is the film that gave Ronald and Nancy Reagan's best man the Oscar for Best Actor. A terrific classic about POWs in WWII and the precursor to the tv series "Hogan's Heroes".
To: ReformationFan
Peter Graves is the snitch.....
To: ReformationFan
...I think one of Holden best performances
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posted on
07/14/2013 1:06:19 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: ReformationFan
Loved that movie! My sister and I wanted to dig tunnels under all the outbuildings on our farm.
Mom said, ‘NO!!’ Meanie. :)
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posted on
07/14/2013 1:07:13 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Mom was smart. My Dad’s best friend lost his son in a cave-in of a backyard hole/tunnel he was digging.
To: ReformationFan
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posted on
07/14/2013 1:24:26 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Political Correctness is unAmerican)
To: ReformationFan
Great movie. One of the best men-men-in-prison movies.
Hard to rate one over the other: Bridge over the River Kwai, The Great Escape and Stalag 17.
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posted on
07/14/2013 1:31:23 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
To: ReformationFan
Something to watch on a hot, high desert day.
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posted on
07/14/2013 2:00:09 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(All your database are belong to us.)
To: Vision
The turning point:
“Two packs of cigarettes say Dunbar never makes it past the wire. Who’ll cover?”
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posted on
07/14/2013 2:05:24 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: ProtectOurFreedom
We almost lost my uncle in a snow fort cave in, too! Grandma saw his foot sticking out and she pulled him to safety. He was blue, but he survived. ;)
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posted on
07/14/2013 2:27:01 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: ReformationFan
I’ve often thought that any American pow who held off sharing what he had as’’ Sefton’’aka Holden did with his fellow Americans was not only a first-class low life but I would have thought his fellow pows would have beaten the crap out of him and just taken his stuff.
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posted on
07/14/2013 5:30:52 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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