What's the best forgotten/underrated film?

[Hertsblue]

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

Well, I did say it was "hardly forgotten". More 4 was running a series of post WW2 "weren't we awfully brave, chaps" war films in the mornings recently, including The Battle of the River Plate, notable for Lionel Murton's turn as an excitable American reporter in Montevideo and the appearance of a decidedly toothless H.M.S. Cumberland as herself. 

[mart678]

The Battle of the River plate starring an American Crusier as the Graff Spee

[Hertsblue]

Yes, it was the USS Salem.

[fsn]

Always liked 'The hill' with Sean Connery.

I'm a huge Sean Connery fan. He's been a RAF Aircraftman in "On the Fiddle", a Commando in "The longest day", a tank sergeant in "The Hill", a Victorian solder in "The Man Who Would be King", a Para general in "A Bridge too Far" but never been a RN sailor, when in fact he was in the service for a short time.

He was a Russian sub captain in "Hunt for Red October" and US Military Cop in "The Presidio".

"On the Fiddle" (in USA "Operation SNAFU") is probably my favourite.

[ronan]

I'm a huge Sean Connery fan. (...) never been a RN sailor,(...)

Commander Bond ? 

[FierceKitty]

Connery fan here too, but I canhappily get by without watching The Hill again. Movies which avoid a musical score lose so much and gain so little.

[Hertsblue]

Connery fan here too, but I canhappily get by without watching The Hill again. Movies which avoid a musical score lose so much and gain so little.

What theme music do you suggest for a fairly grim film about a British military prison staffed by alcoholic sadists, FK? 

[fsn]

it would have to be something about "bars". 

[Raider4]

I've not seen it for years, but I remember The Hill to be a terrific little film, right up until the last scene, which is terribly staged. Really, really theatrical. Let the flim down badly I thought.

Also another vote for The Beast - about a T-55 trundling around Afghanistan. Another terrific little film.

Cheers, Martyn
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