[Heyworth]

I gotta vote for The Green Berets too, if for no other reason than the closing moments, when the sun sets in the east. (I am not making this up.)

The kid annoys me too.

"Was my Peter-san brave?"

Gotta go with the concensus about Battle of the Bulge. The only worthwhile moment is the panzer troopers singing their panzer ass-kicking song at the beginning. Someone said that it was filmed in the U.S., but I believe it was actually Spain. Most of the big war movies of the 1960s and 70s were filmed there--Franco was apparently always willing to rent out his army. And if I recall correctly, it's not Sherman tanks, it's M-48 Patton's--for both sides.

Other nominees: Well, despite Charlton Heston (and maybe partly because of him), Midway is pretty awful (and uses a lot of recycled Tora x 3 footage). MacArthur, with Gregory Peck is pretty abysmal, too. A Bridge Too Far is truly bad, and it's remarkable that a usually great screenwriter, William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Princess Bride, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, etc), wrote that piece of crap. Somebody mentioned Wake Island, but that's not really fair. Hokey as it seems now, it was a very important film at the time as a piece of American home front propaganda.

[parsifal]

"The only worthwhile moment is the panzer troopers singing their panzer ass-kicking song at the beginning. "

As I remember, that was the Horst Wessel Song. I recently wrote a version of it for Al Gore. If you like, I'll ping you a copy. parsy.