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scott_lithgows

Daily Mail films:also in the War films season

Went the day well
Life and death of Colonel Blimp
Escape to Athena
Ill met by moonlight
The long and the short and the tall
I was Monty,s double
Tunes of glory

steady__eddie

If anyone knows what day that this is going to be given away on and could enlighten me in advance, I would be extremely obliged. I already have most of the others and don't fancy the trip into town on a daily basis to check that particular days offering. Many thanks.

barbarawright

It's the 1978 not 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front (which, of course, may be the one you want)

Quaint1

The Mail on Sunday next weekend will have the complete Simply Red album "Stars" inside every copy (according to today's issue)

steady_eddie, if the DVD's are available in the same order as they are pictured in toda's paper, then the film you want should be out on Monday 21st.
Au REs.,
Paul

stphnstevey

Never heard of any of those war 'classics'

Quaint1

I have! some of them ARE classics (In Which We Serve, A Matter of Life and Death, Reach For The Sky, Colonel Blimp, Went The Day Well), others are more recent sequels or remakes of variable quality. It's often the case with the Daily Mail offers.

Moving on, The Guardian is offering a Godzilla DVD next Saturday (19th April); if the picture used in the advert is anything to go by, it's the original Japanese movie from 1954 (iMDb link) and not the Devlin/Emmerich remake...
Au Res.,
Paul

steady__eddie

Barbara and Quaint1, thanks for your assistance. It was the 1930 version that I thought was on offer. Didn't even know that they had remade it.
Saw it some years ago on the box and the state of technology in it reminded me of my service in the forces in the 60s and 70s. (19 that is, not 18):D

quoia

stphnstevey wrote: »

Never heard of any of those war 'classics'

Well you do need to have a TV and turn it on ocasionally.

I think 13 of them have been on BBC or ITV in the past 12 months.

There is just 1 of the 16 films that I have never seen - although that is because it is the remake version.
I HAVE seen the B&W original. We were shown that one at school.

I've seen all of the other 15 films at least twice - a couple probably 6 or 7 times at the very least.

Quaint1 wrote: »

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others are more recent sequels or remakes of variable quality. It's often the case with the Daily Mail offers.
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Obviously KWAI is a sequel but from what I can see is it only the AQotWF that is a remake !

quoia

For those interested in further details of the "War Classics"


REACH FOR THE SKY (1956) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0049665/
starring KENNETH MORE
True life story of DOUGLAS BADER, World War II Hurricane fighter pilot, indeed Wing Commander, despite losing both legs in 1931

IN WHICH WE SERVE (1942) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0034891/
starring NOEL COWARD, JOHN MILLS, RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH, MICHAEL WILDING
Fact based (Lord Mountbatten) WWII sea drama shown in flashbacks from the survivors in a life raft

ACES HIGH (1976) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0075627/
starring MALCOLM McDOWELL, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, SIMON WARD, JOHN GEILGUD, TREVOR HOWARD
Young inexperienced World War I pilots wage the air war against the Germans on the Western front

ABOVE US THE WAVES (1955) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0047797/
starring JOHN MILLS, JOHN GREGSON, DONALD SINDEN , JAMES ROBERTSON JUSTICE
True story of the WWII attack by British midget submarines on German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord

WENT THE DAY WELL ? (1942) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0035429/
starring LESLIE BANKS, HARRY FOWLER, THORA HIRD, PATRICIA HAYES, FRANK THORNTON
Disguised German paratroopers occupy an English village in preparation of a planned invasion

THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (1956) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0048990/
starring JOHN GREGSON, ANTHONY QUAYLE, IAN HUNTER, BERNARD LEE,
The WWII pursuit of the pocket battleship GRAF SPEE by inferior Royal Navy ships ending at Montevideo Uruguay

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/
starring ROGER LIVESEY, JAMES McKECHNIE, DEBORAH KERR
Boer war & WWI veteran's gentlemanly ideals and the WWII change of values when fighting the Nazis

ESCAPE TO ATHENA (1979) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0079117/
starring ROGER MOORE, TELLY SAVALAS, DAVID NIVEN, STEPHANIE POWERS, ELLIOTT GOULD, ANTHONY VALENTINE
Escape from a POW camp on a Greek island and attempt to take some of the German spoils of war with them

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1979) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0078753/
starring RICHARD THOMAS, ERNEST BORGNINE, DONALD PLEASENCE, IAN HOLM
The tragic experiences of young German recruits witnessing death, mutilation, carnage and the futility of WWI trench warfare

ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT (1957) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0049357/
starring DIRK BOGARDE, MARIUS GORING, DAVID OXLEY, DIMITRI ANDREAS
Fact based WWII kidnapping of a German General from Crete and movement to Cairo by British officers and partisans

THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL (1961) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0054037/
starring RICHARD TODD, RICHARD HARRIS, DAVID McCALLUM, RONALD FRASER, LAURENCE HARVEY
British soldiers, lost on jungle reconnaissance, face fear, conflict and moral dilemmas with a Japanese prisoner

I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE (1958) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0051759/
starring M.E. CLIFTON-JAMES, JOHN MILLS, PATRICK ALLEN, LESLIE PHILIPS, MICHAEL HORDEN, SID JAMES
True story of the impersonation of General Montgomery (actually by M.E. Clifton-James) to mislead the Germans

TUNES OF GLORY (1960) >>> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0054412/
starring ALEC GUINESS, JOHN MILLS, SUSANNAH YORK, GORDON JACKSON, GERALD HARPER
Internal conflict between senior officers over the command of a Scottish Highland regiment just after WWII

Redcase

Quoia do you know what the 16th war film is?