[TV] Channel 5 PM War Films

[jakarta]

Dambusters at 13.10 followed by Where Eagles Dare.

First one reasonably historically accurate, second one utter tosh, both very entertaining of course.

 

[Official Old Man]

I watched The Great Escape on Tuesday. Well the last 45 mins or so anyway.
Never seen it before and was surprised when Steve McQueen didn't escape over the fence. I believed he jumped it on his bike.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Bridge on the River Kwai on Film at 11. Again.

 

[Happy Exile]

Love the Dambusters film. I've posted elsewhere here before about how for a while I worked as a volunteer at Brooklands, before it opened properly as a museum, alongside Norman Boorer who was a key part of Barnes Wallis's team. We spent a lot of time together and he showed me all sorts of amazing blueprints and drawings of prototype and real aircraft and more from the Vickers days and had so many stories. It's a regret of mine that I was too young (13 or 14) to fully appreciate the significance or privilege of the experience or think to record it. I knew it was special, but not quite how special.

 

[happypig]

Guy Gibson was 24 when he led the Dambusters raid.
When I was 24 I was still getting my mum to do my washing.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Guy Gibson was 24 when he led the Dambusters raid.
When I was 24 I was still getting my mum to do my washing.

Tbf, he did have someone doing his washing for him too

 

[A mex eyecan]

Guy Gibson was 24 when he led the Dambusters raid.
When I was 24 I was still getting my mum to do my washing.

when I was 24 I was still so stupid I didn’t even realise I was 24

 

[Change at Barnham]

Thanks for the heads up Jez. My afternoon is complete.
There is something very therapeutic watching black & white films, particularly a feel good war film.

 

[Change at Barnham]

Guy Gibson's black Labrador has become Trigger in today's film.

 

[wunt be druv]

Guy Gibson's black Labrador has become Trigger in today's film.

I noticed that, he didn't call his dog that in his autobiography....can't think why they changed the name!

 

[jakarta]

Guy Gibson was 24 when he led the Dambusters raid.
When I was 24 I was still getting my mum to do my washing.

A pedant writes

Guy Gibson's black Labrador has become Trigger in today's film.

Load of nonsense, rewriting history...

 

[KZNSeagull]

"He dismissed the French flagship with a yorker"

 

[jakarta]

First attack underway through the flak - they're a bit aggressive aren't they?

And first dam breached

 

[jakarta]

Second dam just gone as well..

 

[Blackadder]

The model railway just bought it

 

[essbee1]

Historians would have us believe that the effect of The DB raids on the outcome of the war was
negligible. All it did was kill hundreds if not thousands of workers in the factories/populations around the dams - so actually
a bad thing.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Guy Gibson's black Labrador has become Trigger in today's film.

Is that why he keeps calling Michael Redgrave “Dave”?

 

[Bry Nylon]

Dambusters at 13.10 followed by Where Eagles Dare.

First one reasonably historically accurate, second one utter tosh

If you’re telling me that Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood weren’t members of an elite group of commandos who must enter an almost impregnable Nazi stronghold to rescue a high-ranking American officer, then frankly I don’t know what to believe anymore.

 

[jakarta]

Historians would have us believe that the effect of The DB raids on the outcome of the war was
negligible. All it did was kill hundreds if not thousands of workers in the factories/populations around the dams - so actually
a bad thing.

Have to dispute that, disrupting the water supply to the Ruhr Industries was not 'negligible'.

And all bombing is a 'bad thing' if you are of that persuasion. Bombing Nazi Germany was not a bad thing in my view.

 

[jakarta]

If you’re telling me that Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood weren’t members of an elite group of commandos who must enter an almost impregnable Nazi stronghold to rescue a high-ranking American officer, then frankly I don’t know what to believe anymore.

Especially as Burton is clearly 40 plus..