I always get a kick out of The Commancheros. Clean shaven, showered Texas Rangers in freshly pressed shirts riding around pre-statehood Texas in disciplined column of twos like Prussian lancers. Equipped with copious quantities of repeating Winchester rifles and Colt revolver models not designed for another thirty to forty years. Fun movie.
>>> At least Midway tried to maintain a thread of historical accuracy
Mainly what Midway tried to do was see how many clips they could steal from older war movies to keep production costs down, and thereby take away time from Charleton Heston’s over-emoting regarding his son to the bare tolerable minimum. Midway recycles much of Tora Tora Tora’s attack scenes, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Away All Boats, and about a dozen more.
I wondered why that guy was yelling "Dive! Dive!" on an aircraft carrier. ;-)
Heston: "YOU'RE GUESSING!"
Holbrook playing the Intelligence Officer: "Well we like to call it analysis."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
By "stealing" do you mean adding previously recorded film, or recreating the scene in full copy mode? I hadn't heard that before. Midway is one of our greatest ever victories. I love watching that film.
To: PJ-Comix
Chuck Connors as a tall blue-eyed Geronimo.
I remember at the time of seeing that movie how ridiculous it seemed on the surface, but also liking Conners in the role.