Geez, this movie was amazing! It gave me a totally new look at WWII; through a woman's eyes. If you are a fan of Claudette Colbert (she's ok), Paulette Goddard (INCREDIBLE) and/or Veronica Lake (cool, dude) you MUST see this film. It's very informative and, while you may cringe at the somewhat stupid ending, you will be captivated through out.
Please watch this.
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Yeah, I did learn a lot from this film. I wish there were more like it, ya know? Entertaining films that give you a historical realistic point of view of what it was like to actually BE a woman in the war.
And the part where Veronica Lake sacrifices herself...I just thought that was cool.
Goddard was definitely great.
i was so sad about lake...:( and really happy that goddard got an oscar nomination for her part!! =D
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This is a wonderful film. I saw it several months ago, and it's one of the best war films I've seen. I would have bought it for Christmas.
And for those of you who havn't seen it, it will be showing on TCM.
12:00AM on Thursday, March 2. (As in early morning Thursday.)
http://turnerclassicmovies.com/schedule/month/?cid=&oid=3/1/2006
http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?scarlettTitleId=90654&afiTitleId=674&category=overview
I too, love this movie and have seen it many times throughout the years. The ending may seem a little stupid by todays standards, but when you take it in the context of when the film was made, right in the middle of WWll when we didn't know what the outcome would be, you can understand it ending on a positive and hopeful note. Incidently Claudette Cobert is one of my favorite actresses. She absolutely excells in comedy. Have you ever seen "Midnight" (1939)
shareActually, the only other Claudette Colbert film I have seen is "It Happened One Night," which, of course, she was fabulous in. Oh, and I also saw her in part of "Cleopatra," where I felt almost everyone was miscast.
I really liked Veronica Lake in this movie. It was a very different role for her, and I feel she portrayed it honestly and well.
If truth is stranger than fiction, where are the flying monkeys?
Then you must see " Since You Went Away" another perspective on WWII from the homefront. It is a wonderful film starring Claudette Colbert and Jennifer Jones. It is a very long film almost as long as GWTW. It was also produced by David O. Selznick. I also love Paulette Goddard. Have you ever seen "Kitty"? Probably her best performance.
shareI must see more Paulette Goddard films. She was brilliant (a close second to Vivien Leigh's Scarlett!!), and I've seen her only in this movie, "The Women" (funniest. movie. ever.), and "Modern Times" (sooo cute). I love Jennifer Jones, even though I've never seen any of her movies (don't ask, because I have no answer), so I'll try to check it out. And Kitty. Thank youuu!
If truth is stranger than fiction, where are the flying monkeys?
If you are interested in seeing Kitty. Please email me. [email protected]. Paulette Goddard is so spunky and cute and I think she is very underrated. and I absolutely love Jennifer Jones, she posesses the same etherial beauty as Vivien leigh. I hope you will get the chance to see some of her films. Especially Portrait Of Jennie and Love Letters.
shareI saw it a few years ago, great film.
shareI just finished watching the movie again.
About the only thing I found unrealistic was that Davidson counted to four before throwing, but I guess that's accecptable. The rather emotion-less voiceovers kindof give it a vintage docu-drama feel, which I guess this really is. Never thought of it that way. The evacuation scene is one of the best sequences I've seen for a long, long time. Overall it's still one of my favorite films.
I just saw this movie and was amazed how realistic it was. Great oldie but goodie.
shareI have seen this movie 4 times now, and in my growing opinion, the best actress in the supporting role is Veronica Lake!!
Despite a -too- little contribution...wow... this, at that time only 20 years of age, actress performed great in her moving scenes!
(And I wonder, why Paulette Goddard was ever nominated.)
Robert
PS
Please a release of "So Proudly we Hail!" on DVD.
Agreed, Veronica Lake was excellent. I don't think people, including herself, ever gave her enough credit for her talent! She gave the most moving performance in this film. I can see how some people might wonder why Paulette Goddard was nominated; however, I can believe it. I think she might've deserved it more for her work in 'The Women,' but nonetheless Goddard was in her element here. Once Veronica Lake's character dies, Goddard really is the one who carries the film, not Colbert.
If truth is stranger than fiction, where are the flying monkeys?
I do fully agree.
It does'nt happen often, but I was very moved by Veronica Lakes acting performances. And, as born in 1922, she was a very young, promising actress too. My sincere compliments -)
Claudette Colbert acted like an experienced actress, nothing special. I like her performance in "Drums along the Mohawk".
Robert
I just saw this film again last night - hadn't seen it years - and I agree about Lake. She should have received the nomination, and I'm surprised that Goddard got one and she didn't. I LOVE Paulette Goddard, but Lake's role was so showy, and it was such a departure for her - she shouldn't have been overlooked. As I said when I commented on the film, I always thought that in real life, Paulette Goddard probably beat men off with a stick. She was so charismatic.
shareCome on, people! While Lake's character's account of her sweetheart-US Army/Navy aviator being gunned down by Japanese warplanes was moving - - - and Goddard's smart-aleck "playa"-nurse was funny and entertaining - - - the emotional core of this film was Claudette Colbert's Nurse Janet Davidson. Her reaction to the death of the American trooper who tried to hang on to her "banca" (boat) as she and some of her nurses were evacuated to Corregidor, as the Filipino and American forces on Bataan were surrendering to the Japanese, was so vivid and heart-felt! That bit of acting there just sears the viewer.
share^^Just saw it and have to agree. Not sure why so much fuss is made over Goddard in this. At times she seemed really unrealistic as a character. Colbert carried this film in acting but the greatness of the film was the photography, sets and effects.
shareThis review pretty much nails why I'd hope so many people would skip this farce of a movie:
Not a single nurse in 1942-1945 who served in the Philippines died during the Japanese invasion or later in Japanese prison camps.
In contrast, the death rate among males in both situations, which included the Bataan Death March (in which the nurses did not participate), was absolutely horrific, and included slave labor in Japan by being transported there by unmarked Japanese hell ships routinely sunk by unknowing U.S. submarines where starved, sick, suffocating men locked in holds drowned by the thousands.
There were endless aspects of the movie that tried the viewer, even in 1943: maudlin speeches by the chaplain, nurses, and others (including a speech in a love letter at the end of the movie) every 15 minutes or so; front line soldiers and a Marine (who for some reason wanders around all alone in an Army unit, on the voyage over and in the Philippines when he should have been with his fellow Marines in the 4th Marine Regiment) who nonchalantly stroll back and forth at will from the front lines to the rear to schmooze with their girl friends; fraternization (absolutely forbidden) between a nurse and the (apparently) lost enlisted Marine (who is a PFC in his blouse and a Pvt. in his shirtsleeves); absolute confusion as whether these nurses were Red Cross (civilians) or U.S. Army and Navy; the usual tiresome 1940's litany of wisecracks; not a single, solitary mention of the U.S. Army medics and Navy Hospital Corpsmen who, unlike the nurses, indeed WERE in the front lines, decimated, and left behind with their patients (no Australia for them); Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard obviously too old for their roles; Veronica Lake with hair shoulder length; endless, childish cat fights; and a scene with Veronica Lake, Japanese soldiers (who don't fire but obligingly gather around), and a hand grenade which has no competition for the 20th Century's Prize for the Hands Down Stupidest Scene Ever Filmed in a War Movie. The production values were good, but that and its patriotism are the only positive things you can say about this movie.
Although I'd probably disregard the age complaint (why do so many people think that no one over 30 participates in military work?) , but that's about it.
Btw, Veronica Lake as a war hero would be LOL-worthy if it wasn't so insulting.
yes i just saw itWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...