[fso301]

If anyone hasn't already seen it, I highly recommend the version of "All Quiet on The Western Front" Starring Ron Howard and Ernest Borgnine. Yeah, I know how could Ron Howard ever be a good fit in a war movie. I thought the same thing until I watched the movie and then i realized Ron Howard was the perfect fit for the character.

[Monterrosa-24]

He was also good in the Jim Bowie bio called THE LAST COMMAND. It was a great Alamo film. Borgnine played a knife fighter who lost a fight with Bowie but survived and later was glad to follow him into battle. As the Alamo falls to the Mexicans the Borgnine character is run through with a bayonet but he still manages to throw the Mexican off the wall.

[LiveFree99]

Just a correction. It wasn't Opie/Richie Cummingham co-starring with Borgnine in the 1979 version, it was John Boy Walton, a.k.a. Richard Thomas. And yes, it was a pretty good TV movie.

[jimfree]

If anyone hasn't already seen it, I highly recommend the version of "All Quiet on The Western Front" Starring Ron Howard and Ernest Borgnine. Yeah, I know how could Ron Howard ever be a good fit in a war movie. I thought the same thing until I watched the movie and then i realized Ron Howard was the perfect fit for the character.

Richard Thomas played the lead (Paul). He and Borgnine were wonderful as was much of the cast.

[latina4dubya]

i did see this (with Richard Thomas--John Boy) back in 1982 in my high school US History class... it was excellent... thanks for the reminder... i had forgotten that EB was in it...

[Nebr FAL owner]

It ain't Ron Howard but the actor who played "John-boy Walton " in the series "The Waltons"