[ConservativeStatement]

Any movies about the brave men who fought in the Korean War?

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

“Any movies about the brave men who fought in the Korean War?”

One day I was scrounging around in the bargain video bin at Wal-Mart. I found and bought a Korean War video. It was about artillery spotting aircraft (L17? L19?) My favorite part is where a young impetuous pilot wants to strike back at the enemy. He lashes some bazookas onto the wing strut so he can take out a tank.

The Red Chinese in the movie fly P-51 Mustangs. Can’t remember the title. I’ll have to look it up when I get home.

[massgopguy]

The Korean War? You mean the one where they drank Martinis and chased Nurses named Hot Lips?

Dad was in the 25th Tropic Lightning at the Yalu River.

[rktman]

“Bridges of Toki-Ri” comes to mind. But that was a LOOONNNNGGGGG time ago. Sure impressed me as a kid. Go Mickey Rooney.

[Bender2]

Re: Any movies about the brave men who fought in the Korean War?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_films_and_TV_specials#Korean_War_.281950.E2.80.93present.29 :

Korean War (1950–present)
Air Strike (1955)
The Bamboo Prison (1954)
Batalyon Pilipino sa Korea (1953)
Battle Flame (1959)
Battle Hymn (1957)
Battle Taxi (1955)
Battle Zone (1952)
Battle on Shangganling Mountain (1956)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Cease Fire (1953) (3-D)
Combat Squad (1953)
Dragonfly Squadron (1954)
Flight Nurse (1953)
Fixed Bayonets (1951)
Hell's Horizon (1955)
A Hill in Korea (1956)
Hold Back the Night (1956)
The Hook (1963)
The Hunters (1958)
I Want You (1951)
Inchon (1982)
The Iron Angel (1964)
Jet Attack (1955)
Korea (1952)
Korea Patrol (1951)
MacArthur (1977)
Marines, Let's Go (1960)
The Marines Who Never Returned (1963)
MASH (1970)
Men in War (1957)
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Mr Walkie Talkie (1952)
No Man's Land (1964)
The Nun and the Sergeant (1962)
One Minute to Zero (1952)
Operation Dames (1959)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Prisoner of War (1954)
The Rack (1956)
The Reluctant Heroes (1971)
Retreat, Hell! (1952)
Sabre Jet (1953)
Sergeant Ryker (1963)
Sky Commando (1953)
Sniper's Ridge (1961)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Submarine Command (1951)
Take the High Ground (1953)
Tank Battalion (1959)
Target Zero (1955)
This is Korea! (1951)
Time Limit (1957)
Torpedo Alley (1953)
War Hunt (1962)
A Yank in Korea (1951)
The Young and The Brave (1963)
Big Fish (2003)
Taegukgi (2004)
71: Into the Fire (2010)
Legend of the Patriots (2010) (TV Series), remake of Comrades
Road No. 1 (2010) (TV Series)
The Frontline (2011)

Cannot say I saw all of these... but IIRC several stand out as being pretty good: The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Battle Hymn, The Hunters, Men in War, Men of the Fighting Lady, Pork Chop Hill, The Rack, Retreat, Hell! and Sergeant Ryker [Lee Marivin a Commie or not?] and of course, many were not too hot or a disaster such as Inchon where we had Laurence Olivier playing General Douglas MacArthur if old Dug Out Doug was Shylock from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."

BTW Word on the street... is that old Doug is still spinning in his grave at better than 3,000 RPM over Larry's portrayal in Inchon!

[doorgunner69]

“The Bridges at Toko-Ri” was a pretty good movie when I was a kid...............

[Yorlik803]

Only a handful of movies about the Korean war come to mind. Most were good.
Korea was a forgotten war. I knew a Korean war vet who was pissed when the Vietnam Vets got their memorial before they did.
The more I read about that war the more I came to realize how bloody it was. And how America was caught flat-footed and struggled to come back only to be sucked into the UN morass.