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Originally Posted by Pax Melmacia

I remember back in my high-school days (Seventies) second-rate theaters here in the Philippines were swamped with war movies made in places like the Balkans and Warsaw pact countries. (You had T-34/85s representing everything from Shermans to PzKwIVs) most were pretty abysmal, but quite a few were interesting.

couldn't be any worse than that uneccessary movie about the Battle of the Bulge. Apparently the makers of the movie forgot that they were filming a story about a German mechanized assault that attempted to exploit bad weather in late 1944, and had strings of Panzers tangling with Shermans (probably not what was used, but what do I know about armor?) under clear skies. Chalk it up to another instance of "Stupid Hollywood". Where was that movie filmed anyway? The Mojave? I don't know what Wisconsin was charging, but those producers should have paid for it.

I do remember one told from the viewpoint of a German Kommando who was part of that failed raid to kill or capture the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin) in Tehran. this was made long before 'tthe Eagle Has Landed'.

How did that story compare?