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Molecules · 02-03-2009, 01:05 PM

Huge cast, great director, shite film. Still, it lead to a fascinating wikipedia trawl afterwards; the film accounts what was a failed but daring attempt to end the war and the biggest ever parachute drop behind enemy lines. It took place around the occupied Netherlands in late 1944 when Nazi forces were on the retreat.
It's always nice to see a WW2 movie where the British contribution, working alongside the US, is recognized without us being reduced to tea-drinking caricatures (that would be the British director then).

Lots of shots of Michael Caine driving around in a little tank. Ryan O'Neal is a good actor (for evidence of this see Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, just re-released infact) but was far too young to be cast as a general commanding thousands of American troops. Gene Hackman, for some reason, is cast as a Pole and his attempt at an accent was hard to watch.

02-03-2009, 01:05 PM	#2240 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	Huge cast, great director, shite film. Still, it lead to a fascinating wikipedia trawl afterwards; the film accounts what was a failed but daring attempt to end the war and the biggest ever parachute drop behind enemy lines. It took place around the occupied Netherlands in late 1944 when Nazi forces were on the retreat. It's always nice to see a WW2 movie where the British contribution, working alongside the US, is recognized without us being reduced to tea-drinking caricatures (that would be the British director then). Lots of shots of Michael Caine driving around in a little tank. Ryan O'Neal is a good actor (for evidence of this see Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, just re-released infact) but was far too young to be cast as a general commanding thousands of American troops. Gene Hackman, for some reason, is cast as a Pole and his attempt at an accent was hard to watch. __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her