Quote from: OldenBUA on 27 December 2012, 10:17:35 AM
... because it was used some time post-war by the French.

I thought they only used the 75mm gun from the Panther in their own, new, maybe Panthe inspired???, tank design.

No they used roughly 100 (2 btns worth) for a couple of years, replaced with Easy 8's by 1950. The gun was shortened to an L60? and fitted to the AMX-13.

IanS

Quote from: Nosher on 28 December 2012, 10:04:47 AM
Like buses, I post this thread and then two decent war movies come along in the same day -

Bridge over the River Kwai and Cockleshell Heroes

And a third fourth and fifth film today!
Zulu ,The Four Feathers (remake which I have never seen) and the original version of Charge of the Light Brigade

Defiance! I forgot Defience! Awesome film

And boy in the striped PJs but I don't think that's a 'war' film. 

For those of you who have Netflix, I can recommend "the Siege of Jadotville".

It's the story of an Irish company in the Congo in the 1960's - sort of a Rourke's Drift feel.

The excellent Mark Strong plays a UN official, and lots of unknown (to me) Irish actors.

Good, gritty feel to the film. Two things I noticed was the unshaven appearance of the soldiers before they left Ireland, and the amazing pin point accuracy of a 60mm mortar at a stated range of 2,200 yards. 

Are you sure it's not O'Rourke's Drift?

Well, Rourke's Drift is already named after an Irishman. The O's not going to add more Irishness.

Apparently the main actor is the chap from "50 Shades of Grey", and the excellent "the Fall", alongside Gillian Anderson.

The doughty sergeant was the main lead in the US version of "Life on Mars".

Dag Hammarskjold was played by the actor who stars as the Swedish James Bond "Hamilton", and Beorn in the Hobbit films.

To illustrate, here's a picture of Gillian Anderson.

Anderson for Bond!

My former pupil, Chiwetel Ejiofor, would be a cracking Bond.

Certainly. Just as Damien Lewis would be perfect for the reboot for "Shaft". 

Quote from: fsn on 08 October 2016, 02:32:08 PM
Certainly. Just as Damien Lewis would be perfect for the reboot for "Shaft". 

There are some quite good foreign war films out there -well, I think they are not bad- all of which have subtitles.

Battle for Sevastopol (Russian WW II)
8th Company (Russian -about a bunch of recruits in Afghanistan)
Beyond the Front Line (Finnish WW II)
The Front Line (Korean -Korean War)
Brotherhood (Korean -Korean War)
Lebanon (Israeli -Arab Israeli War)
Assembly (Chinese -Chinese Civil War)
Days of Glory (French and Algerian WW II)

Not really foreign but not bad nonetheless:
Kokoda: 39th Battalion (Australian)

MickS

Quote from: Subedai on 08 October 2016, 07:32:32 PM
Not really foreign but not bad nonetheless:
Kokoda: 39th Battalion (Australian)

Definitely foreign

Quote from: shireman on 08 October 2016, 02:03:33 PM
My former pupil, Chiwetel Ejiofor, would be a cracking Bond.

Loved him as The Operative in "Firefly."

I think he'd be a brilliant Bond.

Damien Lewis as Shaft would be a stretch, given that the characters skin colour is central to the plot, however if we set it in a Post-Brexit England and made him Polish instead of black that would probably work

Emily Blunt, Gemma Arterton or Rosamund Pike would all do as "Bond, Jane Bond" for me and all infinitely preferable to Loki.

I look forward with amusement to the day testosterone fuelled audiences recoil in horror as one of those ladies ogles Chris or Liam Hemsworth emerging from the waves in a tiny pair of budgie-smugglers

For me the best war film is 'Went the Day Well?' brilliant for a movie produced during the war.

Dave