There's a Modern Aircraft Carrier in this film
The scene near the beginning where the ships are heading toward Anzio. Yeah! Its got A-4 Skyhawks on it and everything.
"You go get 'em Little Friends!"
While there are A-4 on the deck, the ship is still probably an Essex Class updated with the angled flight deck. Something else, at the beginnig of the same aerial footage shows a ship that has a helo deck.
shareYeah...stock footage of ships the movie maker thought were cool. The Italian and other NATO forces appeared to help in the film, especially the scenes showing the busy port with the troops embarking for the operation. It was an impressive array of ships and equipment for an otherwise dreadful movie...perhaps one of the worst war pictures ever made. Did you listen to the stupid lyrics of that snappy 60's lounge song/opening title theme while the credits were running ? It was sung by Jack Jones and could have been used for the movie version of "That Girl" ! Many posters have already said it: the real story of Operation Shingle (Anzio) would make for a great war picture, if anyone had the guts to make it. Having said my comments about this surprisingly bad movie, I really liked the two scenes involving General Kesselring...the one in his HQ and the other in his staff car, touring the front line. CmdrCody
shareI like the bit where the bloke in the jeep arrives at Rome and there're those three columns amidst an archaeological site. I eventually realised that they are a bit of a Roman signature image, like Big Ben and Tower Bridge are for London and the WTC buildings used to be for New York. I have to concur that it's hard work to get your money's worth.
PS have you read anything by David Stahel?
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
He's come to the view that Barbarossa failed by August 1941, so that all the stuff in Ukraine and Caucasus in 1942 was a coda. It seems to fit well with Tooze's work on the German war economy. I managed to read the second one last week by mistake, so now I have to read the first one....
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
Stahel: wasn't that the name of the George Peppard character in "The Blue Max?"
"...I am 'comfortable' in the air, mein heir."
CmdrCody
@ Cody,
Wolfgang Preiss was a superb actor, and this was probably his best English language performance - one wishes we could have seen more of his character in this film. Interestingly, during WW2 he was specifically exempted from war service by the Nazis and spent 1939-45 acting in German films. Very Mephistophilean...
"Duck, I says..."