Heads Up..Saturday night movie on PBS..Don't Miss it..

an old movie that's VERY relevant in our times.. and a great film too :)

KCET (Los Angeles) has saturday night movies..maybe on other PBS channels too :)


One of the BEST anti-war films ever..

great review here

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so there is usually always something great to watch

That's ten channels as in all I get.

Sometimes the BEST shows are on the instructional channels..California university has about 3 or 4..and I even watch the Denman Forestry channel ( from washington State )sometimes..and University of Virginia lecture series... I am blessed with a variety of wonderful "upper channels" and I love them..

I wish I could zap you some of my channels :hug:

I get three.

Don't know what I do without television. :rofl:

Julie Andrews and James Garner excellent in it, the supporting cast is outstanding and really makes the picture memorable. James Coburn and Melvyn Douglas are both brilliant in their roles. Julie Andrews doesn't sing a note, yet still makes a vivid impression. The script by Paddy Chayefsky is a marvel, in and of itself. This seems to be a nearly-forgotten film but it deserves to be shown again and again. Thanks for reminding me.

I've been a fan of Julie Andrews and James Garner since "The Sound of Music" and "Maverick"(the old ABC series) and I've liked everything they've done. In fact, one of my all-time favorite movies was one that featured them both together, "Victor/Victoria", a great and highly entertaining movie.

I'm a little amazed that I completely overlooked this movie. I knew it existed but never heard much about it. I thought it was just a fluffy romantic comedy from the 60's that was cute and funny then, but would seem corny and dated now. I read the review in your link and this will be next in my Netflix queue.

on edit: Happy 1,000 to me! It's taken me long enough!

partly because of the Viet Nam war, AND because they did it in B&W.. I went because I liked JG & JA, and LOVED the movie.. It's a favorite of mine.. My all time favorite anti-war movie is an OLDIE made by Anthony Quinn..an Italian low-budget film called "The 25th Hour". I think Virna Lisi was in it too.. It's rarley replayed and has dropped off the edge of the earth,.especially since they reused that title for a recent movie..

If you ever see it, please rent it..and I guarantee you'll love the intermingling of the anti-war stupidity and the ruthless propagandistic media portrayed in it..
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Not to be confused with the 2002 Spike Lee film of the same name, The 25th Hour (1967) follows the tribulations of a simple Romanian peasant during and after World War II. Falsely sent to a work camp by a local police captain who lusts after his gorgeous wife, Johann Moritz is first erroneously tagged as a Jew, then "rescued" by a Nazi officer who determines Moritz is a perfect Aryan specimen and forces him into service as a model for German propaganda. Imprisoned after the war, he is severely beaten by his Russian captors, then put on trial by Allied forces because of his work for the Nazis.

Moritz is played by Anthony Quinn with echoes of both his robust peasant character in Zorba the Greek (1964) and his dim-witted strongman in Fellini's La Strada (1954). As the Hollywood studio system went into decline and the majors moved more toward distribution than production, a new trend emerged: the multi-company, multi-national co-production. Whether through wisdom or good fortune, Quinn - who had played almost every conceivable ethnicity - was perfectly positioned to take advantage of this development. In fact, much of his later career was sustained as an international actor. As early as 1953, he began working in Italy, and for the rest of his life he continued to move between the U.S. and Europe. The 25th Hour was a Yugoslavian-French-Italian production, based on a highly regarded 1950 Romanian novel adapted by French and British writers, directed by a Frenchman, produced by Italian Carlo Ponti and featuring a cast of actors from Italy, Switzerland, England, Ireland, France, Czechoslovakia, Canada and, in Quinn's case, Mexico.

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here's the review/synopsis section about it..
http://www.nndb.com/films/381/000074159/

I've seen it 6 or 7 times. It's an incredible Oliver Stone movie, with a great performance by Tom Cruise. And based on a true story. VERY realistic and it doesn't pull any punches.

I love the way it starts with Ron Kovic's childhood and teenage years in '50's and 60's, showing how a young Ronnie has internalized the patriotic, militaristic, ant-communist values of his day and wants to fight in a war to show his love of his country.

And how the Military-Industrial Complex treats him after he is paralyzed from the chest down (an overwhelmed, understaffed VA hospital full of rats and lacking in basic care). It also shows how traumatic the loss of body parts and bodily functions can be for a young man in his twenties.

At a very personal level, it shows who pays the price for wars. It was made on 1989. It's about the Vietnam era, but I think every young American under 30 should watch it before they join the military of a country at war, like our own right now.

"The Misfits" is a good film, but I would rather see "Americanization" again.