There is a picture of filming in progress on this page in which the webmaster asks if anyone can identify individuals in the photo: http://www.armypictorialcenter.com/the_big_picture.htm Perhaps your father is in the picture?
one of my favorites is thirty seconds over tokyo force ten from navarone gung ho and for giggles-father goose
Speaking of great war movies, Stalag 17 is available for pre-order on Blu-Ray at Amazon. I think the release date is October 8th. (And yes, I've already pre-ordered.) "If I ever run into any of you bums on a street corner, just let's pretend we've never met before."
Here are my favorites not in order: Saving Private Ryan Apocalypse Now Pork Chop Hill Deer Hunter Enemy at the Gates Brest Fortress
I just watched an outstanding war movie, one without a single battle scene, that begins and ends with a retirement ceremony: The Gallant Hours, about Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey at Guadalcanal. It starred James Cagney as Halsey, and was directed by Robert Montgomery, himself a veteran of PT boats in WWII. Montgomery was also one of the movie's two narrators; he did narration when the Americans were on screen (even telling what was about to happen to some of them), and another narrator covered the Japanese side. (The Japanese scenes were filmed in Japanese with no subtitles.) I don't know about the detailed interpersonal interactions between the figures, but the events appear to dovetail nicely with Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno, although timeframes are obviously compressed and some details are omitted. It is obvious that Montgomery cared very much about the subject of the film. An interesting side note is that this move, although it looks like any other commercial disc, is, when ordered from Amazon, burned on demand onto a DVD-R.
