Re: MV movie question.....

From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 08:58:52 PDT


Actually that should have been "Bridge on the river Kwai" not "over" as
I had previously posted.
Bruce

The Alamo wrote:

> Jun 19 2006
> GREG,
> Yes! I have seen it 2 weeks ago at the Italian TV. It was in color
> and Michael Caine as a British officer, was in charge of destroying a
> gasoline deposit near Tobruk, Libia, in WWII, going through the desert
> behind Axis lines.
> Here in Italy all movies are dubbed in Italian, i.e. Michael Caine did
> speak Italian in the movie!!
> No! I do not know title in English. However, I am at work at the
> moment. Back at home I shall check a book I have. It is an American
> war movies book (transleted in Italian). If it is in this book,
> tomorrow I shall let you know the title!
> I am a fan of cinema and I have all the WWII movies in video. Lee
> Marvin "Dirty Dozen", W. Holden "Devil's Brigade", C. Eastwood "The
> Warriors", "The Longest Day" (pity it was shot in b/w), "Bridge on the
> River Kay", J. Wayne "Iwo Jima", "Saving Private Ryan" just to name a
> few. Well, also western movies (read: John Wayne, I have all his
> movies...).
> Regards,
> Raimondo
> 1943 GPW Jeep
>
>
>
>> It was Michael Caine playing a British Officer that was put in charge
>> of a
>> bunch of "Dirty Dozen" type British Troops that didn't respect him at
>> all to
>> start off. The trucks being pulled up the hill was correct but I can't
>> remember the name of the movie!! It's in color now, just watched it
>> a few
>> weeks ago on the History Channel.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Greg Trent" <czechsix@cox.net>
>> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:33 AM
>> > Subject: [MV] MV movie question.....
>> >
>> >
>> > > OK, MV movie gurus - need some help out with this one.
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying to find the title of this movie (or maybe it was a TV
>> movie?),
>> > > but the only thing that some friends and I can remember from it
>> is one
>> scene
>> > > where trucks are being winched up a cliff. Location was probably
>> supposed to
>> > > be North Africa, time more than likely was supposed to be WW2.
>> Movie
>> was in
>> > > color, if that helps.
>> > >
>> > > Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>> > >
>> > > Greg
>
>
>
>
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