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remember liking this but now???

posted 12 years ago by ib011f9545i
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I saw this many years ago on tv.
It is never on nowadays perhaps due to it not having a big star in it?
Alan Ladd was a big star but not well known nowadays.
So I bought the dvd.

I must have been a wee boy when I saw and liked this because it really is not that good.

I admit I am a big war movie fan and also a world war 11 history nut but I was a bit disappointed by this film.

No spoilers but why make a film about the parachute regiment that does not show their most famous actions,D day and Market Garden?

The action in this one is set in France during a raid and in North Africa.

Call me an anorak but I swear the German troops in this one use British weapons? and the planes are very shiny and not green or camo?
Stanley Baker plays an RAF parachute instructor,while is correct but then he trains them in unarmed combat?

The script is awful and the whole tone of the film must have been old fashioned even in 1955.
I was not impressed by the action sequences either.

I compare this to THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED and think that film is better.
I think the reason it is never on tv is because it is not very good.

[–] Zephaniah 11 years ago

Time and life change many perceptions. I first saw this too as a child and just saw the last half on TV today. 60 years changes a lot of things - I was seriously underimpressed by the same action sequences which probably enthralled me as a kid - being not too long after the war. What did impress me though, for the period, was the velocity at which paratroopers hit the ground when using those early parachutes. They were one tough bunch of men.

[–] katesgram2000 11 years ago

"I admit I am a big war movie fan and also a world war 11 history nut but I was a bit disappointed by this film."

I believe you mean WW II not WW 11......we haven't even had WW 3 yet let alone number 11......hee hee