Having known several people who experienced a portion of their young lives in a Stalag, this movie is rather kind to the Nazis, but because it was a made for TV production I suppose it had to be. The acting was quite good but I don't think women and men were actually able to fraternize as easily as depicted in this movie, nor were they actually as well fed as these "prisoners" appeared to be. I'm not sure how historically accurate the escape scene was as it seems impossible to me that people would choose to scramble through a barbed wire fence when 50 feet away there is a huge open gate. Lastly I wonder why no one thought to shoot the men with the MG 42 machine guns in the towers first and then escape.
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U-571
(2000)
Historical?
19 January 2018
Apparently everyone who reviewed this movie expected to see a historically accurate movie in every respect. Nowhere did the makers say it was an accurate portrayal of an actual event on any particular U Boat or any actual patrol. The film was made in the USA to make money, not be a historically 100% accurate film about any Nazi U boat. As far as whether the US Navy ever captured a U boat, yes they did on June 4, 1944. They arrested the crew and got the enigma machine which was sent to Bletchley Park England. The boat U 505 was then towed the boat to Bermuda. It now sits in Chicago at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The US under the Lend-Lease Program gave the United Kingdom $31.4 billion (equivalent to $427 billion today) during WW 2. I guess that was a mistake according to most respondants here I see. Perhaps the US should have stayed out of Europe and let France and England defeat Hitler by themselves while we took on Japan.
Random Harvest
(1942)
The Best Movie of All Time
31 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I've seen this movie about 10 times and I plan on watching it at least 10 more times! I love everything about it with the exception of one nearly unbelievable relationship. In my opinion Susan Peters and Ronald Colman being lovers is just a wee bit (actually a lot more than just a wee bit) of a stretch to begin with; good grief he was old enough to be her father, and then there is the scene with her tearfully abandoning him in the church after gazing into his eyes for a few seconds? While that scene was very well done and quite touching, IMHO it is just too unbelievable. Too bad she tragically died about 10 years later in a tragic accident as she was quite convincing in this movie as a perky teen and a beautiful and confident young lady. In the book she dies, and I suppose throwing that into this movie instead of her simply leaving him at the altar would have required extending the movie another 20 minutes or so perhaps making the movie too long.
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