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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
This is the Memorial Day weekend, and several movies will be on television.
What is your favorite WWII movie, and why?
I'll go first.
"The Best Years Of Our Lives", with Myrna Loy, Federick March, Dana Andrews, Theresa Wright and Harold Russel, (a real WWII veteran who lost the use of his arms). Also with Kathy O'Donnell and Hogey Carmichael.
I like it because it shows the difficulties adjusting back to civilian life, and it has great acting. Bette Davis said it was the best film ever made, but then she was in love with the director, the great, Billy Wilder.
Playing on TCM, Monday at 10:30 PM.
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Mine would be
Saving Private Ryan because of its very well done and extremely graphic depiction of the horrors of war while also showing the heroism of those drawn for the most part unwilling into it. Very little false flag waving in this film. They fight for their brothers-in-arms for the most part.
There is even a Villager whose daughter worked on this movie. She was in charge of casting. According to her father, she was quite shocked when it did not win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The things you learn at Doggie Doo Run Run from fellow dog lovers.
My uncle Bill fought as a scout in Italy in WWII and lost an arm, a leg, and part of his skull to a German tree burst shell. It killed all of his squad except for one other man. He was talking to these men when I took care of him just before he went into a nearby nursing home. He had some kind of brain damage that caused dreams while he was awake. This was only when he was much older though. The squad still seemed to be the most important thing to him even though he came home a small town hero in Itasca, Illinois.