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To: kayak
Back when Hec was a pup I saw that WW 2 movie also, and it scared the snickers out of me. I, too, remember that paratrooper stuck atop the church. That's all I remember about it.
133 posted on 05/27/2002 10:44:52 PM PDT by GretchenEE
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To: GretchenEE
I, too, remember that paratrooper stuck atop the church. That's all I remember about it.

I'm sure it was "The Longest Day". It's available in most video rental stores. It's a long movie, and takes two tapes in the video tape version. It was the "Saving Private Ryan" of it's day. ALthough it had many more big name stars in it, and was if anything a much bigger production. John Wayne being the foremost of the big stars. Red Buttons, quite well known at the time, played the paratrooper who got hung up on the church. Other stars ranged from Henry Fonda (as Theodore Roosevelt's son), to Eddie Albert (later on Green Acres) and included Fabian, and other up and comers, some of whom fizzle and others who went on to become big stars. It also included non American Actors, Germans as well as French and British. Sean Connery was one of those, playing a common, if somewhat cynical, soldier.

160 posted on 05/28/2002 7:27:09 PM PDT by El Gato
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