What's the best forgotten/underrated film?

[Nosher]

Cromwell

Richard Harris as Cromwell was a bit mind boggling, but Alec Guiness was great as Charles and Timothy Dalton was a believable fop as Rupert.

I also miss/enjoy Full Metal Jacket which doesn't seem to have been on TV for ages!

[Russell Phillips]

I also miss/enjoy Full Metal Jacket which doesn't seem to have been on TV for ages!

We have it on DVD Haven't watched it for ages, though

[Leveller Mutineer]

Tali hasi 44 "Finish war film" even has real stug's and Kv 1's

I think it also shows a very brief glimpse of the Lahti L-39 anti-tank rifle. Which, as anti-tank rifles go, is a bit of a beast.

You intrigue me Sir!

I have not dipped my toe in the Nordic war film. I have "Ambush 1941" on my Amazon wish list. I shall take your recommendation and try it.

Tali-ihantala 44 is a good film. Especially with the armour. Ambush 41 is also good, but I think the best Continuation War film is 'Beyond Enemy Lines' about the Swedish speaking Finns. The one that is critically acclaimed, but I have yet to see, is 'The Unknown Soldier': the black and white 1956 version rather than the 1985 remake.

LM

[HPFlashman]

"Cockleshell Heroes" and "Went the day well", both splendid flicks. 

[FierceKitty]

Cromwell

Richard Harris as Cromwell was a bit mind boggling, but Alec Guiness was great as Charles and Timothy Dalton was a believable fop as Rupert.

WORST historical movie on record (tho' I wouldn't kick Timothy Dalton out of bed either).

[Maenoferren]

Ice Cold in ALex.....
The Duellist not the best uniforms for French cavalry but still a jolly good romp (well it is from memory anyway)
Letters from IWO JIMA
Lets not forget the Longest Day, Overtaken by Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers... but still a good one
The Long and the Short and the Tall... With Ronald Reagan
Platoon and then Hamburger Hill has it's moments
Yeah Downfall - not a nice film, but some good acting, wished I hadn't seen it for about two weeks afterwards
will think of some more tomorrow...sleep beckons

[Hertsblue]

I'd also go for Tora Tora Tora, brilliant battle scenes. The Longest Day also ranks high in my collection. Hardly forgotten, though.

[Fenton]

Paths of Glory is one of my favourites

Though I suppose not a war film in the traditional sense ' A very long engagement' is good as well

[fsn]

"The Bedford Incident" with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. A  gripping cold war film of hunter and hunted

Thank you Dickie255 for this film. I have just watched it whilst sitting at home with men replastering a wall in another room! Fantastic, captures the Cold War so well. You didn't mention the supporting cast - James McArthur, Martin Balsom, Ed Bishop, Donald Sutherland and a magnificently brooding Eric Portman as an ex-U-boat captain.

Brilliant!

[fsn]

I was watching "War of the Dead" in which a platoon of Finnish & American soldiers in 1941 attack a Russian bunker that produces zombie super soldiers.

The Yanks were wearing the wrong helmet, the Finns were using the PPSH41, and they were fighting with the Finns when  a) the Yanks didn't join in until late '41 and b) the Finns were on the "wrong side".

Moaned about this for ages, totally ignoring the obvious plot flaw that the Russian didn't create zombie super soldiers.

[FierceKitty]

Why's everyone going on about war films?

[fsn]

My fault. I was looking for a good war film I hadn't seen.

[Malbork]

Surprised to see some these films callsed as forgotten. The Longest Day is on almost very day on some SKy channel or other.

It's true that's I'd forgotten I had The Last Valley (poor old Brian Blessed!)
Along with the German The Bridge (or Bride as the case may be  ) I'd recommend Das Abenteur des Werner Holt, an East German offering which shows some of the last ditch fighting on the Eastern Front plus a general overview of wartime society.

[mollinary]

It's true that's I'd forgotten I had The Last Valley (poor old Brian Blessed!)

How true!  The film that answers the question "What is that spiky thing on top of his hat for?"   Ouch 

Mollinary

[mart678]

I have another couple

Stalingrad By the same director as Das Boot
Saint's amd Soldiers WW2
When trumpets fade WW2
Revolution the Americans did not like it as it showed them doing what they normaly did when the british fixed bayonets and charged R** ***Y

Regards
Martin

[O Dinas Powys]

I was watching "War of the Dead" in which a platoon of Finnish & American soldiers in 1941 attack a Russian bunker that produces zombie super soldiers.

The Yanks were wearing the wrong helmet, the Finns were using the PPSH41, and they were fighting with the Finns when  a) the Yanks didn't join in until late '41 and b) the Finns were on the "wrong side".

Moaned about this for ages, totally ignoring the obvious plot flaw that the Russian didn't create zombie super soldiers.

   

Cheers!

Meirion

[republic of tolworth]

Always liked 'The hill' with Sean Connery.

[mart678]

I Forgot the grestest war film ever

To Hell and Back with the lead actor actually being the real lead character the man the US Marines turned down


Martin

[NTM]

A couple I like that don't get shown too often

Tarnished Heroes which is a sort of British Dirty Dozen saw it about 20 years ago (when Channel 4 shows a lot of stuff that wasn't 'reality' crap) but not since. It will probably turn out to be one of those that I remember fondly but does not bear watching again if I ever do track it down.

A Walk in the Sun gets shown on Movies 24 or one of the others like it on Sky. Manages to convey the periods of seemingly boring inactivity between bursts of combat whilst still gripping the viewer. The short story by the same name which the film was adapted from is excellent too.

[fsn]

I got a copy of "Tarnished Heroes" a few years ago. Very British, made on a small budget. Cheap 'n' cheerful.  Anton Rodgers was in it, if memory serves.

The problem I have with "Walk in the Sun" is that it does convey the boredom of war by being ... boring. I think perhaps a lot of the war film cliches were born in this film.