[Rummyfan]

He "Caught It on It's First Showing", as he blithely put it.... Afterwards, I asked him what he thought. He said that, "It was a fine movie, but no one looked cold enough." It was insight that I'd never even once considered.

And strange how in that movie, Belgium looked just like the California high desert ... like around Ft Irwin.

[wbill]

LOL, I made this same comment on another thread. One posters' reply was that "It was a fine movie" was the nicest thing he'd ever heard said about that flop of a picture.

Grandpa was the kind of guy who wouldn't say anything bad about anything. :-) Geez, I miss him sometimes.

[Bender2]

Re: And strange how in that movie, Belgium looked just like the California high desert ... like around Ft Irwin.

Gadzooks! Not sure what Battle of the Bulge film y'all are talking about... but the 1965 one with Hank Fonda, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Robert 'We will be as hard as the steel of our tanks' Shaw, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, George Montgomery, Ty Hardin and James MacArthur was shot the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range, Spain, with the indoors shooting done in Madrid as per http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/