Posted on 05/04/2019 10:47:25 AM PDT by PROCON
Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy plays himself in “To Hell and Back.” (Universal)
Never Surrender: WWII in the Movies is a 75-movie series airing on Turner Classic Movies in recognition of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The series runs on Thursdays in May and June.
TCM host Ben Mankiewicz visited the National World War II Museum in New Orleans to film the channel’s trademark introductions with the museum’s staff and noted WWII historian Lynne Olson. He also talked with us about the series and TCM’s unique relationship with its viewers.
The month of May is devoted to movies about life and sacrifice on the homefront. June features the WWII combat movies that we know and love and quite a few obscure titles that deserve a first (or second) look.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Gotcha!! I hear ya....if movies are too depressing, then they are hard to watch.
I feel the same way about Beaches.
Awww.....that’s a great footnote, to that movie.
Thanks.
The resemblance is there, and Woody’s a fine actor. We’ll see.
It’s the special effects that should be great.
Most people know about the American Cemetery in Normandy, but nearby is the German one, still very well maintained, albeit gets fewer visitors.
He is on Young Turks but I have never heard him knock a conservative actor or director for his politics. Also I have seen him interact in both a friendly and very respectful way with Dennis Miller. I may be mistaken but Mankewicz strikes me as a guy who would engage in argument with me, not outrage at me. And he treats the flicks with respect. I like him for the same reason I like Svengoolie. He has fun with the flicks he shows but he treats them and the actors with respect, unlike the jerks who did Mystery Science Theater 3000 who mocked them continuously.
WWII struck home for me when I visited the Arizona. You see the footage in a theater with seats. Then you’re (or, you were) carted off to ferry over to the memorial. Grown men wept. The noise of that explosion. All those people.
Foreign military were visiting when I went.
My folks had friends killed in Honolulu. My folks NEVER bought anything Japanese for the rest of their lives.
When I visited the Arizona Memorial, there were many Japanese tourists there.
You left out the actor who gave the best performance of all: Jose Ferrer, in the after party scene, "I'm drunker than you, so it will be a fair fight". (OUCH!)
I did not see:
Battle of the Bulge (1965).
That seems a major omission.
Trust me, that's a good thing.
BTW, Herman Wouk, still kicking at 103.
LOL!! That was a great line!
Short but sweet.
Wow! 103.....that is a long life. Have we heard from him, lately?
You may be right. The Japanese leadership put a news blackout on what happened at Midway to their public going so far as to isolate returning survivors of the battle to keep them from spreading the news.
If you have the desire one can do the reverse and visit Hiroshima and laugh and joke there too. Introduce yourself as Paul Tibbetts son or grandson for more frivolity.
PDF link of the Complete Schedule ....
https://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/2019/WWII/TCM-WWII-2019-Schedule.pdf
The heir of communist forerunners being a capitalist. Makes me Smile to think of him having to honor American greatness and freedom in his work. Now if TCM would just show “We Were Soldiers” and “American Sniper”
Or “13 Hours”
Ben would need a pound of pancake makeup to cover an ashen face.
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They still never caught on after our guys blew Admiral Yamamoto’s plane out of the air, with him on board:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto: Shot Down and Killed by American P-38’s - April 18, 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4y_376DBc
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