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Like a lot people on here my Dad passed on his love of war movies and westerns to me so I’ll mention some of them,

The Professionals : my favourite western, Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster, it doesn’t get any better.
The Dirty Dozen: Lee Marvin again. Love it when he says to maggot, “You’ve got two choices, you can either march or I can beat your brains out”
The Magnificent seven
The Searchers
The Bridges of Toko Ri
The Guns of Navarone
The Dam Busters
Bridge on the river Kwai
Gallipoli

Tiger of old wrote: Like a lot people on here my Dad passed on his love of war movies and westerns to me so I’ll mention some of them,

The Professionals : my favourite western, Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster, it doesn’t get any better.
The Dirty Dozen: Lee Marvin again. Love it when he says to maggot, “You’ve got two choices, you can either march or I can beat your brains out”
The Magnificent seven
The Searchers
The Bridges of Toko Ri
The Guns of Navarone
The Dam Busters
Bridge on the river Kwai
Gallipoli

You are talking my sort of movies mate.

Only thing with Westerns, dont think Ive seen Proffesionals, but for Westerns, Im a big Duke fan..

My Faves are
The Searchers, probably best ever Western for mine and from the Duke.
The Alamo,
The Train Robbers,
Rio Bravo.

Bazza wrote:
You are talking my sort of movies mate.

Speaking of "Americanisms" .......

Stand the Test wrote: Good example of how the language develops. Only someone who was affecting it would call them the pictures or refer to a film of the flicks. Everyone calls them the movies.

Yeh gotta sayI’m from the generation that went to the “movies”not the “pictures”
Bazza (who I respect big time as an old school knowledge ) also caught me out with “peanut butter “ instead of peanut paste. I’ve been saying that all my life I never knew

the dirty harry movies
Anzacs was well done and notable for not being anti-british
battle of britain
zulu movies
Patton was well done by scott
the 48 hours movies

Tiger of old wrote:

Stand the Test wrote: Good example of how the language develops. Only someone who was affecting it would call them the pictures or refer to a film of the flicks. Everyone calls them the movies.

Yeh gotta sayI’m from the generation that went to the “movies”not the “pictures”
Bazza (who I respect big time as an old school knowledge ) also caught me out with “peanut butter “ instead of peanut paste. I’ve been saying that all my life I never knew

Or how about a film? Or as Sir Les Patterson calls it, “the fil’m industry”.

Stand the Test wrote:

Tiger of old wrote:

Stand the Test wrote: Good example of how the language develops. Only someone who was affecting it would call them the pictures or refer to a film of the flicks. Everyone calls them the movies.

Yeh gotta sayI’m from the generation that went to the “movies”not the “pictures”
Bazza (who I respect big time as an old school knowledge ) also caught me out with “peanut butter “ instead of peanut paste. I’ve been saying that all my life I never knew

The pedants go a bit over the top sometimes. I bet Bazza says ‘soft drink’ like everyone else and not ‘cool drink’ as we used to do.
He wouldn’t say ‘soda’ though.

Funny enough I still use Cool Drink a lot, Soft Drink has creept in though for me as well,,,

DD wrote:

Tiger of old wrote:

Stand the Test wrote: Good example of how the language develops. Only someone who was affecting it would call them the pictures or refer to a film of the flicks. Everyone calls them the movies.

Yeh gotta sayI’m from the generation that went to the “movies”not the “pictures”
Bazza (who I respect big time as an old school knowledge ) also caught me out with “peanut butter “ instead of peanut paste. I’ve been saying that all my life I never knew

Or how about a film? Or as Sir Les Patterson calls it, “the fil’m industry”.

Love Sir Les.

Film was pretty popular in the 70s and early 80s when the Australian "Film" industry boomed.

Unfortunately "pictures" and "wireless" are in declining use.

ArkRoyal wrote: the dirty harry movies
Anzacs was well done and notable for not being anti-british
battle of britain
zulu movies
Patton was well done by scott
the 48 hours movies

The Anzacs TV series was pretty good at the time, I know they spent a lot of time on getting the detail correct and Paul Hogan did well in it, as you say it wasnt full of the usual pommie cliche like Gallipoli, there was a English bloke actually with the crew through the series.

I notice Guns of Navarone another great one - was on GEM on the weekend, came at a time in late 50s and 60s when big budget WW II epics were hitting the screens, Bridge on the River Kwai, Great Escape, Longest Day, I think the actors really made these movies, particularly as they had real military experience themselves. Hows Richard Todd, he was actually at Pegagus Bridge in real life and then made the movie about it, and work his beret from the real battle.

bazza; i agree 100 per cent on the ANZACS -- they even got the attitude of the Germans right, especially that of the officer corps. I will never forget that officer promising to take revenge on the commonwealth troops, even as the Australians passed on some of their food to his soldiers. That was all the hiter war was about: revenge, plus lebensraum added as an ideological prop.