Battle of the bulge

[Private_collector]

What do you think about the movie "Enemy At The Gates"?

Can't vouch for originality, I don't know enough to spot errors, but I like it for entertainment value. Always good to see a nazi sniper get one through the head

[Little Jo]

Hi Tony and Dianaa

In the early part of the movie, "Enemy at the Gate" you come accross a young "Khrushchev" Nasty bast*rd, see him ordering men into the line without weapons waiting for the guy in front to get shot so he can pick up the gun. No regard for the men, expendable. At least Kennedy put him in his place and called his bluff during the Cuban Crisis.

Cheers

Tony

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Dianaa

On a smilar vein, do you remember a John Wayne movie "The Sea Chase" about a German tramp steamer that escapes Sydney at the start of the war trying to get back to Germany?

There is a line in the commentary by David Farrar, the RN Commander Jeff Napier where he talks about Captain Karl Ehrlich's (John Wayne) options. The line goes something like "to the East the Indian Ocean and to the West the vast Pacific Ocean". Only a septic could have written that line, because from Sydney the Pacific Ocean is East!

Another interesting "fact" which I haven't confirmed, is footage of the steamer (which I believe is actually a former US liberty ship) the Erganstrass may actually appear in the 1992 Harrison Ford movie Patriot Games.

Hi Dianaa

Not a bad movie, enjoyable but I couldn't help but think it a bit of a propoganda film, some nice scenery and of course and of course that "Line" Duhh. Who could not watch a JW film, some good support acting and as always the hard nut Nazi to mix up the plot. At the end the question is, Did John Wayne and Lana Turner make it.

Cheers

Tony