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Brian G. Hutton, Director of ‘Where Eagles Dare,’ ‘Kelly’s Heroes,’ Dies at 79
Variety ^
| 8/21/2014
| Carmel Dagan
Posted on 08/21/2014 7:08:48 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Charles Martel
"Oddball" is sort of a beatnik-hippie hybrid, which I guess someone figured would be required to sell a WWII movie in 1970. It's also a deliberate jab at the traditional war movie audience, which is in keeping with the overall irreverance of the film.Like the original M*A*S*H movie with the marijuana references during the football game.
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08/21/2014 8:00:53 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Steely Tom
When I was in eighth grade, he took me to Where Eagles Dare. Broadsword calling Danny boy. Richard Burton. When I was stationed in Germany, I got to see the real castle where they filmed the movie. It was actually in Austria. In the movie, it appeared the castle was many thousands of feet above the valley floor. In actuality, it was maybe only about one hundred feet above it.
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08/21/2014 8:02:30 AM PDT
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Mark17
(Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
To: Charles Martel
In 1970 the film ‘Patton’ was sold as a story of a ‘Rebel’ who ‘defied authority at every turn’. That’s how it had such a wide appeal.
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08/21/2014 8:02:49 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Servant of the Cross
Kelly's Heroes. What a classic There is no other movie ever made that I have watched a fraction of the number of times I have watched Kelly's Heroes. My wife is still amazed how my head flops to one side, my jaw goes slack and my ears can't hear a word she says every time I find it while channel surfing.
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08/21/2014 8:06:55 AM PDT
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Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Dixie Yooper
It’s amusing to think that Carol O’Connor was being shuffled back to the U.S. at the time to film multiple pilots for ‘All in the Family’ which he didn’t think would go anywhere and insisted on a free plane ride back.
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08/21/2014 8:09:24 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: PfromHoGro
Or something to that affect. One of my favorite lines of all time.A Sherman can give you a nice edge.
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08/21/2014 8:09:47 AM PDT
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Mark17
(Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
To: Sans-Culotte
They should have set the movie in Vietnam There was nothing of enough value to soldiers in the North or South of Vietnam to risk desertion charges. The French beat us to it long before WWII started.
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08/21/2014 8:10:03 AM PDT
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Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Mark17
Crapgame: Then make a DEAL!
Big Joe: What kind of deal?
Crapgame: A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy's a Republican. "Business is business," right?
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08/21/2014 8:15:37 AM PDT
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Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Servant of the Cross
One of the best movies ever made. Oddball stole that movie.
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08/21/2014 8:37:24 AM PDT
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wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
To: Doctor 2Brains
You didn’t say nothing about locking horns with tigers.
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08/21/2014 8:43:17 AM PDT
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wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
To: Borges
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08/21/2014 9:01:49 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: Mark17
When I was stationed in Germany, I got to see the real castle where they filmed the movie. It was actually in Austria. In the movie, it appeared the castle was many thousands of feet above the valley floor. In actuality, it was maybe only about one hundred feet above it. The castle has a website.
Had the hanging tram cars been replaced with the inclined-rail type when you visited?
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08/21/2014 9:11:20 AM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Borges
To: Dixie Yooper
There was nothing of enough value to soldiers in the North or South of Vietnam to risk desertion charges. The French beat us to it long before WWII started.Yes, but a simple plot device to claim there was a cache of gold that the French left behind.
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08/21/2014 1:29:08 PM PDT
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Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: Charles Martel
It's interesting that this same man directed Kelly's Heroes and Where Eagles Dare. Two great films, but as different in tone as possible.Kelly's Heroes was certainly a spirited entertainment. I know I come off like a guy who is too much a stickler for realism. Generally, I'm not. But every now and then, some little thing like the incongruousness of Oddball irks me. I don't mind if a western like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shows repeating weapons a few years earlier than when they made their appearance, but am more annoyed when a western like The Comancheros shows repeating weapons in a film set in 1843. Seems like they could have simply changed the year of The Comancheros. I can still enjoy all those films (including Kelly's Heroes), but those niggling little annoyances make them a sort of curate's egg for me.
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08/21/2014 1:37:24 PM PDT
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Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: Dixie Yooper
Crapgame: Then make a DEAL!
Big Joe: What kind of deal?Don Rickles and Telly Savalas I presume?
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08/21/2014 3:59:15 PM PDT
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Mark17
(Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
To: Charles Martel
Had the hanging tram cars been replaced with the inclined-rail type when you visited?It was back in the 80s, so it has been a long time. I actually saw it a couple of times, but it was from a bus on a nearby highway, while going to the ski slopes, so we only got a quick view of it as we passed by. It was so quick, that I don't recall whether I saw any tram at all, but at least I can say I saw the castle, but we did not stop.
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08/21/2014 4:14:13 PM PDT
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Mark17
(Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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