War

Category: War
All Genres: War, Western
Release Year: 1968
Country: USA
Runtime: 125
Rating: 6.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Buzz Kulik
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Robert Towne – (screenplay) and
Sam Peckinpah – (screenplay)
William Douglas Lansford – (adaptation)
William Douglas Lansford – (novel "Pancho Villa")

Produced by: Ted Richmond – producer

Cast: Yul Brynner – Pancho Villa
Robert Mitchum – Lee Arnold
Maria Grazia Buccella – Fina (as Grazia Buccella)
Charles Bronson – Rodolfo Fierro
Herbert Lom – Gen. Victoriano Huerta
Robert Viharo – Urbina
Frank Wolff – Ramirez
Alexander Knox – President Francisco Madero
Diana Lorys – Emilita
Bob Carricart – Don Luis
Fernando Rey – Fuentes

Music: Maurice Jarre
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Plot Outline: Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
Plot: Mexican rebel Pancho Villa lead a revolution helped by an American aviator imprisonned in Mexico.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
A film by the organization

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: When the tractor driver is pulled away from the flesheaters coffin, the wire that pulls him back is clearly visible.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Sam Peckinpah wrote the original script and was set to direct, but Yul Brynner didnt like the script because it made Pancho Villa – a man who had given standing orders to shoot all prisoners – “look like a bad guy”. Peckinpah was fired and his script was rewritten by Robert Towne to conform to Brynners idea of what Villa was like.
• One of the extras in the film, playing a Mexican guerrilla girl, is Turkish singer Seyyal Taner. She would later receive notoriety for scoring no points in the 1987 Eurovision song contest.

Category: War
All Genres: War, Action, Drama
Release Year: 1965
Country: USA
Runtime: 167
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Ken Annakin
Sound: 70 mm 6-Track
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Writing by: Bernard Gordon – front Philip Yordan
John Melson – writer
Milton Sperling – writer
Philip Yordan – front for Bernard Gordon

Produced by: Sidney Harmon – executive producer
Milton Sperling – producer
Philip Yordan – producer
Dino De Laurentiis – executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Henry Fonda – Lt. Col. Daniel Kiley
Robert Shaw – Col. Martin Hessler
Robert Ryan – Gen. Grey
Dana Andrews – Col. Pritchard
George Montgomery – Sgt. Duquesne
Ty Hardin – Lt. Schumacher
Pier Angeli – Louise
Barbara Werle – Elena
Charles Bronson – Maj. Wolenski
Hans Christian Blech – Cpl. Conrad
Werner Peters – Gen. Kohler

Music: Benjamin Frankel
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Plot Outline: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence…
Plot: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. “The Battle of the Bulge” shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Early in the opening credits we see the words “a hamon cheimafflo film”. The letters of the two middle words then rearrange themselves, one “o” slipping off the side of the screen, to form the name of director Michael Hoffman.

Goofs: We know about 30 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: The German Tiger tanks and American Sherman tanks were actually American tanks from the Korean War era. Most Sherman tanks were scrapped after the war, and the remaining Tiger tanks are in museums.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• This film was denounced by former President (and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WW2) Dwight D. Eisenhower soon after its release in a press conference due to its glaring historical inaccuracies.
• The character of the German Colonel was first intended to be the real life Panzer officer Joachim Peiper, the youngest man in the Nazi Army to be make the rank of full colonel (SS-Standartenfьhrer, the direct SS equivalent to an Oberst or full colonel in the German army). However, since Peiper, a protйgй of Reichsfьhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler , the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the second most powerful man in Germany after Adolf Hitler, was promoted to the ran at the age of 29. However, as he was still living at the time the film was produced and was still a committed Nazi, his character was quickly changed to a fictitious Regular German Army officer, so as not to give Peiper any connection to the film or risk a libel suit. It was Peipers unit of the Waffen-SS, Kampfgruppe Peiper of the 1st SS Division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (German for “Adolf Hitlers Bodyguard Regiment”) that was responsible for the Malmedy massacre of American prisoners depicted in the film. After the War, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted by the American Occupation Force as the trial had been fraught with illegalities, and he served only 11 years in prison, despite having perpetrated war-crimes on both the Eastern and Western fronts. Peiper was assassinated at his home in France, likely by French communists, in 1976.
• The name of the song that the Germans sing is “Panzerlied”. However, only the first four lines of the song are actually sung.