TCM Memorial Day Marathon (War Movies) May 25-28

Good shite

Great info. Thanks. Twelve O'Clock High is one of the best war movies ever made. One of the best opening scenes and mid-movie explanation of it ever. Thanks again.

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Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare

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I got these as a DVD set on ebay for like three bucks shipped. I love these movies.

KH " It's a wasted trip baby. Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tigers"

WED "Broadsword to Danny Boy"

No "Longest Day"

List is shite


(j/k, but too bad they left off the very best WWII film of all time)

No Sargent York either

And no Patton.

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The Great Escape

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Best film on the list.

No Patton though?

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No Midway either. 

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AMC this afternoon

TORA! TORA! TORA!

Sunday Movies


6:45 AM Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Synopsis: A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, Janis Paige; many guest stars including Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino, Barbara Stanwyck, Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, S. Z. Sakall.
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: Amiable all-star silliness set in Hollywood's real-life haven for WW2 servicemen, featuring cofounders Davis and Garfield. Hutton plays G.I. with a crush on lovely Leslie. Best bits: Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet; Jack Benny and violinist Joseph Szigeti. Roy Rogers introduces "Don't Fence Me In,'' later reprised by the Andrews Sisters.


9:00 AM Clay Pigeon, The (1949)
Synopsis: A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Bill Williams , Barbara Hale , Richard Quine .


10:30 AM Password Is Courage, The (1962)
Synopsis: A British officer leads an attempt to escape from a German POW camp.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Dirk Bogarde , Maria Perschy , Alfred Lynch .
Dirk Bogarde stars as celebrated war hero Charles Coward in the incredible-but-true WWII adventure The Password is Courage. Its every soldiers duty to escape. So says Charlie Coward (Bogarde), a British sergeant major in the notorious German prison campStalag VIII-B. So when the men decide to dig a 280-foot tunnel to the trees outside the wire, Coward is called upon to help organize the breakout. Using lies, bribes and sabotage, Coward plays a daring cat-and-mouse game with the enemy as he scrounges the information the prisoners will need if theyre to escape their German captors. Directed and written by Andrew L. Stone, a filmmaker known for his realism, The Password is Courage was based on John Castles best-selling book and made with the technical assistance of Sgt. Major Coward himself.


12:30 PM Onionhead (1958)
Synopsis: An irresponsible student enlists in the Navy expecting to sit out World War II.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Andy Griffith , Felicia Farr , Walter Matthau .


2:30 PM No Time For Sergeants (1958)
Synopsis: A hillbilly draftee turns the Air Force upside down.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Andy Griffith , Myron McCormick , Nick Adams .


4:45 PM Mister Roberts (1955)
Synopsis: A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond, Nick Adams, Philip Carey, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, Martin Milner, Jack Pennick
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: Superb comedy-drama with Fonda recreating his favorite stage role as restless officer on WW2 cargo ship who yearns for combat action but has to contend with an irascible and eccentric captain (Cagney) instead. Fonda, Cagney, Powell (in his last screen appearance) as a philosophical doctor, and Lemmon (in an Oscar-winning performance) as the irrepressible Ensign Pulver, are all terrific. Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan's Broadway hit was adapted for film by Logan and Frank Nugent. LeRoy replaced Ford as director sometime during production... but it certainly doesn't show.


7:00 PM Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Synopsis: An American platoon tries to recover buried treasure behind enemy lines.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Clint Eastwood , Telly Savalas , Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland .


9:30 PM Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Synopsis: An Allied team sets out to free an American officer held by the Nazis in a mountaintop castle.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Richard Burton , Clint Eastwood , Mary Ure .



12:30 PM Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Synopsis: A crack Nazi unit holds off the Allies during World War II.
Dir: Ken Annakin Cast: Henry Fonda , Robert Shaw , Robert Ryan .
The last desperate fight that changed the course of history.Five months after D-Day, most American soldiers think the German army is broken. The Germans think otherwise. In an attempt to buy time to fill the skies with their invincible new jets, they launch one fast, furious offensive: the Battle of the Bulge.For this epic recreation of one of World War II's most crucial confrontations, director Ken Annakin (The Longest Day) captures the explosive action of massive forces squaring off as well as the brave, individual ingenuity of weary GIs trying to survive a cruel European winter. The cast is a juggernaut of stars: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and more. Experience the vast panorama of war in all its intensity - and all its heroism.


3:30 AM Darby's Rangers (1958)
Synopsis: An Army Major leads his men behind enemy lines during World War II.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: James Garner , Etchika Choureau , Jack Warden .