The Best War Movies Ever [Archive] - SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

HMCS

07-31-05, 03:01 AM

I'm a sucker for top ten lists - here is my list of the greatest war films of all time....

1. All Quiet on The Western Front (1932)
2. Downfall (2004)
3. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
4. The Paths of Glory (1957)
5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
6. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
7. The Thin Red Line (1998)
8. Regeneration (1997)
9. Das Boot (1981)
10. Judgement at Nuremburg (1961)

FesterShinetop

07-31-05, 03:29 AM

JScones

07-31-05, 03:45 AM

Stalingrad...brilliant movie if I say so myself :)

Although, my favourite movie, despite all its failings, is Battle of the Bulge. Actually, can someone pls remind me what US tank model was used for replicating the King Tigers? I've forgotten now.

Other classics include Patton, Battle of Britain, Sink The Bismarck, Above Us the Waves, We Dive At Dawn, Battle of the River Plate, OK, well any Rank Arena or John Mills war movie of the fifties LOL.

Other Aussies may have a soft spot for The Odd Angry Shot too. :)

HMCS

07-31-05, 03:58 AM

I liked Tora Tora Tora very much, and I still do. Stalingrad is also excellent.

I dithered about putting Gallipoli on the list, and I had to choose between that an "Regeneration", which was hard.
My also-rans were:

The Cruel Sea (1953)
The Charge of The Light Brigade (1968)
Oh! What a Lovely War! (1969)(Gotta love a musical about WW I!)
Gallipoli (1981)
Breaker Morant (1980)
Enemy at The Gates (2001) (my #11 pick)
Europa Europa (1987) (yikes... espec. the bit with the rubber bands :huh: )

Privat Ryan didn't come close.... to much of a Steven Spielberg "Sgt. Rock Comic"

JScones

07-31-05, 04:02 AM

Oh - forgot one - Zulu.

And perhaps ANZACS (seeing Gallipoli mentioned reminded me).

Dang, I love all war movies :rotfl:

Damo1977

07-31-05, 04:20 AM

KELLY'S HEROES and maybe by christmas if they can release it here in OZ.......THE FALLEN

Duncan Idaho

07-31-05, 04:41 AM

Nice list but I really like the classics like

The Longest Day
A bridge too far
Bridge over the river Kwai
The Guns of Navarone
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Especially the first two, the scale of those somehow make it feel authentic...

Your list is more my style. Especially Tora, Tora, Tora and Bridge over the river Kwai.

Also LOVE the movie Sink the Bismark, which I just finished watching before logging in here. :)

HMCS

07-31-05, 04:43 AM

After some thought I think that Lawrence of Arabia takes over my #8 spot.

I haven't seen The Fallen yet... thanks for mentioning it.

I also have to add some other near-top picks:

Hell's Angels (1930)...mmmm... Jean Harlow
Wings (1927) mmm... Clara Bow....

Ginger Beer

07-31-05, 06:57 AM

HMCS, let me shake your virtual hand. Thats the first time I've seen anyone mention ' The Best Years Of Our Lives ' in a list of favourite war films, on any forum.

Personally, I think it's the best film ever to come out of the USA.

Gammel

07-31-05, 07:37 AM

"Die Brücke" - Germany 1959
by Bernhard Wicki

Don´t know if there ever was made an english version.

Dr. Strangelove - S. Kubrik

Funny and sarcastic movie with some parts in not so funny...(the infantry attack on Burpelson Airbase looks not funny at all. I guess Kubrik used a video camera for that part, wich makes the scenes look very realistic).
Stanley Kubrik is one of the greatest!

Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense

07-31-05, 08:13 AM

an old one with Jack Palance, Eddie Albert... where the soldier that Jack Palance was playing got his arm mangled under a German tank...

i can't remember the name... but that one was great... the best i've seen

of recent film noir...

1- Saving Private Ryan (most intense forst 15 minutes of any movie)
2- Enemy At The Gate

honorable mention

1-Castle Keep
2- Bridge Over The River Kwai
3- the one with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Miffune when both were survivors on a Pacific atoll... can't remember the name
4- The Best Years Of Our Lives (i just keep comin back to this one, something about it)

not really war movies, but
1-Dr. Strangelove
2-The Keep (a really different one, you gota see)
3- Kelly's Heros

ahhhh there's just too many good ones... i mean, after all... there's a lot of available material from which to draw... right...

--Mike

UBootMann

07-31-05, 09:41 AM

3- the one with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Miffune when both were survivors on a Pacific atoll... can't remember the name
4- The Best Years Of Our Lives (i just keep comin back to this one, something about it)

Lee Marvin,Toshiro Mifune movie is "Hell in the Pacific"

"The Best Years of Our Lives" Question: is that the one with the Banzai charge across the creek? The thing I remember about that one is the use of range cards by the machine gunners and that scene was done on a soundstage but captured the jungle feel so well.

My list would include most of the previous mentioned films as well as "A Walk in the Sun" and "Battleground" .

Honorable mention to "Band of Brothers" not strictly a movie but excellent TV probably the best ever.

HuntingBot

07-31-05, 09:53 AM

I know it's not the best movie but the Battle of the Bulge one I always found very fun to watch.
I love The Best Years of Our Lives.
Windtalkers wasn't bad even though it had Nicholas Cage.
The Longest Day is really interesting, both because I love D-Day and because despite some certain violence it's rated G.
Das Boot is the best U-Boot movie ever made.
Saving Private Ryan was the most realistic war scene ever made.
Enemy at the Gates I liked due to the realism, I like realism.
Patton is always fun to watch.

Now the real question is which books did you like the best(if you've read any, I have a near library collection of WWII history books.)

HMCS

07-31-05, 09:55 AM

OK, I have to backtrack... I was on the way home from work this am and had to revise.

1. All Quiet on The Western Front (1932)
2. Downfall (2004)
3. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
4. The Paths of Glory (1957)
5. Apocolypse Now (Redux) (1979)
6. The Seven Samurai (1954)
7. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
8. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
9. Judgement at Nuremburg
10. The Thin Red Line

Honorable Mentions:

The Cruel Sea
Above Us, The Waves
Wings
Hell's Angels
Enemy At The Gates
Dr. Strangelove (thanx for reminding me!)
Ran

The really remarkable thing about #1 was that when you watch the pyrotechnics with All Quiet On The Western Front, you are seeing a film that was made very, very close to the truth. All of the extras themselves were veterans of the BEF,CEF,AEF and even the German Army; they did a scene in French uniforms, then shot another scene in German ones; and the extras didn't need to be directed to act realistically.

Check out the scene of the artillery barrage when Paul and his old DI are in an attack on a village, and Paul has to hide in a grave. Amazing cinematography.

One way to tell a bad war film is the pyrotechnics. Especially when you see mushroom clouds of flame from HE shells....

UBootMann

07-31-05, 11:15 AM

Today explosions are a type of air-cannon buried in the ground that can simulate anything from a grenade to heavy artillery. See BoB behind the scenes making-of video for explanation.

When "All Quiet.... " was made they used dynamite! :o ......
and killed two extras who got too close to to the blasts :dead:

The Avon Lady

07-31-05, 11:30 AM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302360978.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The book is 10 times better.

Farside

07-31-05, 11:33 AM

most of my favourites have been said.. but to re-itterate:

1: Memphis Belle (i love it, great film)
2: Band of Brothers
3: The longest day
4: 633 sqn
5: Battle of britain
6: enemy at the gate
7: saving private ryan
8: das boot
9: stalingrad
10: Kelly's Heroes (that a particular fav)

i've never seen some of the films a few of you are talking about, i'l have a check round the video shop next time i'm there

oh yea.. what was that film with the american carrier in the pacific that got hit by kamakazi's but got back into port.. i like that one too :)

August

07-31-05, 11:41 AM

My favorites in no particular order:

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Stalingrad
Das Boot
We Were Soldiers
The Lost Battalion
Blackhawk Down
The Great Escape
Gettysburg
Patton
The Battle of Britain
The Memphis Belle
They Were Expendable
Zulu

That's about a third of the war movies i have on DVD.

jason210

07-31-05, 12:10 PM

Leaving submarine films aside, these are my choice. There are loads of others I can't remember too.

"Band of Brothers" has to be just about the best.

"Memphis Belle"

"Aces High"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075627/

"The Lost Battalion"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287535/

I thought the "Nuremberg" mini-series was quite good...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208629/

"Harrison's Flowers":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216799/

"Escape from Sorbibor" - super film!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092978/

For sheer adventure "Where Eagles Dare" is an old favourite of mine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/

"The Eagle has Landed" is good too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074452/

Perhaps dated now, but still enjoyable, "The Guns of Navarone"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054953/

"Heros of Telemark"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059263/

This must be one of the best - "The Bridge over River Kwai":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/

Stalingrad is a good one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

Enemy at the Gates:

"Three Kings":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/

"The Four Feathers"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031334/

Dated, but...."In Which We Serve"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034891/

I know it has flaws, but it's still good "Svaing Private Ryan"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/

"Tora Tora Tora"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/

"Pearl Harbour" - Despite it's obvious flaws, this has some great action scenes and the scenes with Roosevelt are very well done.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213149/

Kelly's heros
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/

"Patton" Great film!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/

"Schindler's List" is also a superb film.

Egan

07-31-05, 12:20 PM

I thought the "Nuremberg" mini-series was quite good...

Oh, yeah. That was pretty good.

Talking of TV stuff, has anyone here seen 'Conspiracy,'?

Basically it is a one off drama dealing with the Wansee conference in early '42 where Reinhard Heydrich, the SS and various clerks, lawyers and and administrators thrash out the details of the 'FInal Solution.'

It's one of the most thought provoking and terrifying things I've seen on TV in years. Wonderfully acted by a very good cast, inlcuding Stanley Tucci as Eichman and Kenneth Brannah as Heydrich, and quite brilliantly written. Go and see it now...

jason210

07-31-05, 12:28 PM

I forgot this.

Hitler the Rise of Evil:

Though not strictly a war film, it's quite astounding:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346293/

Twelvefield

07-31-05, 12:58 PM

Three Kings is the best war movie made, in my opinion, makes a great companion piece to Kelly's Heroes.

The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan also would make a good, if long double-header.

Apocalypse Now and Platoon, for a Viet Nam set

Cold Mountain and Gone With The Wind represent the American Civil War in epic style

Gallipoli and Breaker Morant are two great films from Oz, in that time in the '80s' when the Aussie film industry was taking a good swipe at Hollywood

The war movie I want to see most right now (again) would have to be Master and Commander.

U-1966

07-31-05, 01:10 PM

Ever seen The Cruel Sea ?. Excellent movie about a British Corvette on Atlantic Convoys. It's hard to find on DVD, but I found at EBAY for $7.00 from a Korean. It only took five days to reach the US!

KodiakPA

07-31-05, 01:28 PM

Here is the IMDB listing for the Best Years of Our Lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/

Has anyone seen this out on DVD yet? I would love to get it again.

jason210

07-31-05, 02:02 PM

Ever seen The Cruel Sea ?. Excellent movie about a British Corvette on Atlantic Convoys. It's hard to find on DVD, but I found at EBAY for $7.00 from a Korean. It only took five days to reach the US!

Hell that was one I missed! Damn good film.

jason210

07-31-05, 02:03 PM

I enjoyed "Behind Enemy Lines" quite a lot.

Kondor77

07-31-05, 10:33 PM

I'm surprised very few have mentioned 'Der Untergang' or 'Downfall' to us Americans :D . Then again it was a very limited release in the states...just waiting on the DVD now :arrgh!:

1. Stalingrad
2. Das Boot
3. 'Der Untergang' (Downfall)
4. Battle of Britain
5. Tora Tora Tora!
6. Cross of Iron
7. Dark Blue World
8. Enemy at the Gates (Could've been MUCH better, but still not too bad)
9. Tae Guk Gi (Rather new movie about the Korean War...probably the best of all the movies I've seen depicting infantry combat, HIGHLY recomend it)
10. Platoon (Best movie about Vietnam, IMO)

*Edit* And I realize how 1 American (solo effort) movie is on my list...go figure. Leave it to the losers and most affected by war to make the best movies.

Stymnus

07-31-05, 10:52 PM

From my days playing B17: The Mighty Eighth, I remember watching and enjoying 'Twelve O'Clock High' (1949), with Gregory Peck. War when war was still fresh in everyone's mind..

FesterShinetop

08-01-05, 02:21 AM

Actually, I just watched "Der Untergang" yesterday. Very good movie and I recommend it to everyone here. It's quite long but you'll probably won't notice it.
I hope you also have the German version in the States as this is of course a movie that should be watched in German.

Alyebard

08-01-05, 02:53 AM

"Die Brücke" - Germany 1959
by Bernhard Wicki

Don´t know if there ever was made an english version.

Yes, "The Bridge", and I saw it one month ago on late show in TV. amazing!

yankee-V

08-01-05, 08:47 AM

Don't forget "Glory" (1989)

Best film about the ACW by far. Even if not entirely historically accurate.

Nagel

08-01-05, 09:21 AM

The best war movies make the best anti-war movies.
I'd add Stalingrad, and Cross of iron. to the list.
I'n my opinion, Chuck Norris and Sly Stallone have never made a war film.

JayW.

08-01-05, 09:32 AM

Here's mine.

1.Das Boot

2.Gettydberg

3.The Longest Day

4.Patton

5.Plattoon

6.Is Paris burning

7.Hamburger Hill

8. Iwo Jina

9.All quiet on the Western Front (1930)

10.Porkchop Hill

Duncan Idaho

08-01-05, 10:42 AM

StdDev

08-01-05, 11:57 AM

Although not "about" war..
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
The Blue Max (1966)

how bout Stalag 17 (1953)

Stealth Elephant

08-01-05, 02:51 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008L3W3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

KL Seestern

08-01-05, 02:52 PM

I thought the "Nuremberg" mini-series was quite good...

Oh, yeah. That was pretty good.

I'm somewhat partial to this one too, and not only because the guy playing the chief judge was my cousin ;)

Talking of TV stuff, has anyone here seen 'Conspiracy,'?

Basically it is a one off drama dealing with the Wansee conference in early '42 where Reinhard Heydrich, the SS and various clerks, lawyers and and administrators thrash out the details of the 'FInal Solution.'

It's one of the most thought provoking and terrifying things I've seen on TV in years. Wonderfully acted by a very good cast, inlcuding Stanley Tucci as Eichman and Kenneth Brannah as Heydrich, and quite brilliantly written. Go and see it now...

Yes, this is good, but not quite as good as an earlier German film on the same subject: 'Wannseekonferenz', produced in 1984 (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088377/ ). The HBO film is rather too kind to Stuckart and Kritzinger, for the sake of a 'black-and-white' presentation, whereas the German film is a little better at showing the shades of grey in their characters. The story that Kritzinger tells Heydrich in the HBO film (related by Heydrich over a post-conference drink) is really rather unnecessary beat-the-audience-over-the-head-with-a-Message stuff. And there's a glaring inaccuracy, too, in that Branagh's Heydrich is constantly smoking throughout the conference, whereas Eichmann said later that the _only_ time he _ever_ saw Heydrich smoke was one 'celebratory' cigarette after the conference.

(Oh, and for some relevance to submarines ... the guy who plays Klopfer in the German film is the same guy who plays the embassy official bringing the bad news to the Captain aboard the Weser in 'Das Boot'. The IMDB entries don't reflect this, but you can see Guenter Spoerrle mentioned in the cast of 'Das Boot' at http://www.kinotv.com/dvd_tip.cfm .)

Kondor77

08-01-05, 03:14 PM

Hmm, just noticed a movie that hasn't been mentioned that I can see in either this thread, or the 'worst movie' thread:

Memphis Belle

I really loved that movie. I got the feeling it was pretty accurate overall, but couldn't swear to it.

I do like Memphis Belle alot as well, but if I want some Luftwaffe vs. Allies I tend to stick to Battle of Britain.

Iku-turso

08-01-05, 04:15 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000646UN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Link to Amazon:

THE WINTER WAR (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000646UN/104-4725170-0792746?v=glance)

A superb realistic WW2 movie,no Hollywood stuff.

Duncan Idaho

08-01-05, 04:20 PM

Ahh, just remembered my personal favorite WWII movie:

"How I Won The War"

A funny movie, starred John Lennon from the Beatles. It was so ridiculous. :D

THandC

08-01-05, 09:17 PM

A few great movies that are usually looked over:

Battleground

Gallant Hours (Cagney is a great Halsey)

Sahara (No, not the recent one, the good one with Bogart)

All are great movies and definitely worth a mention.

mad_dude

08-01-05, 10:49 PM

One good movie I haven't seen here was "The Enemy Below". I really enjoy that movie.

Kresge

08-01-05, 11:46 PM

Slightly OT...
There was a TV series in the late 80s - early 90s about a platoon in Vietnam, similar in style to Band of Brothers. I'm not sure how many seasons it ran. Does anyone remember the series and its name?
Thanks!
:up:

wetgoat

08-02-05, 12:12 AM

I remember it. The name of that show was ''tour of duty'', and was actually pretty good considering we're talking regular network tv here.

Catfish

08-02-05, 01:13 AM

Hello,
all time favourites, but sometimes a pain to see:

"All quiet on the western front"
(WW1, classic about the senselessness of war)
"The bridge"
(WW2, german teenagers are told to hold a bridge at the end of the war)
"Sharks and little fishes"
(WW2, service in the german Navy from a sailor's point of view - real camera footage and lots of type VII sequences)
"Apocalypse now"
(but only because of Conrad's "Heart of darkness" ;) )
"Das Boot"
(do i need to say more ?)

No war movie, but i remember a novel from a Mark Rascovich (?), describing a destroyer chasing a russian Diesel submarine during cold war. There's a former german U-boat commander aboard (Hardy Krueger?) for advising.

Did they ever make a film from "The bridges at Toko Ri" from Michener ?

Greetings,
Catfish

Kresge

08-02-05, 02:14 AM

Thanks Wetgoat! Now I'll just have to see if I can find it on DVD somewhere
:up:

wetgoat

08-02-05, 05:56 AM

Pharaoh49

08-02-05, 06:08 AM

The McKenzie Break is one I particularly enjoyed.

There is a very rousing rendition of "Erika" sung by the prisoners that rivals the intensity of Panzer Leid from the Battle of the Bulge

McKenzie is a remote, understaffed POW camp in Scotland, where an assortment of German fliers, U-boat men, and soldiers are being held prisoner. The restive POWs stage a well-orchestrated uprising in which they essentially take over the camp. When word of the prisoners' siege gets back to British military higher-ups, they assign rogue Irish officer Captain Connor (Brian Keith) to get to the bottom of things. The Germans have been receiving orders directly from Berlin that call for 28 of the submariners to escape and return to the Deutschland's U-boat fleet. The Germans are led by Schlütter (Helmut Griem), an intelligent, articulate graduate of the Hitler Youth; they have devised an elaborate tunnel and a plot to take them to the Scottish coast, where they will rendezvous with a U-boat to take them back to Germany. The hard-drinking Connor learns of the plan, and stakes his career on letting the Germans escape and tracking them down. Keith is excellent as Connor (though his Irish brogue comes and goes), locked into a three-way battle of wills with the determined Schlütter and the stuffy, by-the-book CO of the camp. The movie's pace and suspense swell as Connor's gambit plays out and the Germans make good their escape plans, all set against the breathtaking scenery of rural Scotland. With intelligent, believable characters and tough direction, this is a sorely neglected World War II POW drama that compares well with better-known films such as Stalag 17 and The Great Escape.

Gammel

08-02-05, 07:21 AM

No war movie, but i remember a novel from a Mark Rascovich (?), describing a destroyer chasing a russian Diesel submarine during cold war. There's a former german U-boat commander aboard (Hardy Krueger?) for advising.

"fire one, aye sir" lol

It was "The Bedford Incident" with richard widmark and sidney poitier

A month ago i have read the book by mark rascovich.
The movie is very good, but the book is much much better.
Easy to find on ebay, i got one for EUR 1.

Damn, how do i get this: "this guy wrote" thing to the quote? :-j

Twelvefield

08-02-05, 01:16 PM

Can you imagine Bob Newhart in a war movie?

Goddam war. I haven't slept under a roof for forty-seven days now. Rain -- the rain gets into everything. Everything I have is soaked. Cold. So cold.

The Krauts have four 88's over that ridge, out of the line of sight. They're pounding away at our boys over in Clermont. I just know that Cap is gonna have us take them out, but dammit, we're so short on men. We lost Henry and Fonseco back in the woods, we lost Tunny when we crossed that river. Lorimar got his leg blown off, Coop got shot in the ass, Flenders, well, he took that grenade and saved the squad. Now all it seems that we have left for killing the Germans is six bullets, a bayonet, and half of a K-ration.

I hate this place. I just know I'm gonna buy it taking those frigging 88's. No sense in writing home. There's no sense in this place at all. Just misery and death --

-- Oh, hi Bob!

Twelvefield

08-02-05, 01:19 PM

Bonus message for those of you who may be to young to know:

One of my fonder college memories was of a drinking game based on The Bob Newhart show. Basically, you had to take a shot every time someone said, "Oh, hi Bob!" on the show. The episodes were only 22 minutes, but it wasn't hard to get real plastered.

KL Seestern

08-02-05, 01:55 PM

Any of you guys remember seeing ''Hell is for heros'' staring Steve McQueen. There were several big time actors of the time (mid sixties I'm guessing ) Clint Walker for one, and several others including Bob Newhart. Can you imagine Bob Newhart in a war movie? Anyhow, I doubt the movie was very accurate, however it was very entertaining, even more so , if you like Steve McQueen. I think he was one of Hollywood's original ''tough guys''

That movie's definitely worth seeing for the scene when Bob Newhart gets to do his trademark monologue schtick in a bunker ... he plays a timid little guy from the typing pool (I think) who accidentally winds up helping an exhausted and over-stretched unit defending part of the front. They know the Germans have left a microphone in the bunker which the Americans now occupy, so they get Newhart to pretend to phone HQ and bluff the eavesdropping Germans saying things like 'Oh no, sir, we really don't need any more men here. We're full to capacity and couldn't possibly fit another man in, so thanks anyway, but please don't send any more reinforcements ... Yes, sir, I know you want to find your men something to do. I hear there's still some fighting in the Pacific, perhaps you could send them over there?'

Ishmael

08-02-05, 08:02 PM

I concur with most selections except I found Memphis Belle totally unbelievable,especially where they make a second run on the targets to avoid a school(never happened). The original documentary is much better.

2 I haven't seen mentioned are,"In Which We Serve", with the incomporable Noel Coward. More of a character study of life on a destroyer than an action film.
The other,"Action in the North Atlantic" with Ray Massey & Bogart. My father saw it in the theaters in Nebraska going back to the West Coast after invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Salerno & Anzio as a merchant seaman. He and his shipmate laughed all the way through the movie, but the screenwriters did have an ear for the language of the merchant seamen in the Foc'sle.

My others would be in no particular order:

The Enemy Below
Das Boot
The Bedford Incident
The Battle of Britain
The Blue Max
Battleground
Hell is For Heroes
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cross of Iron
Run Silent, Run Deep
Full Metal Jacket
The Tuskegee Airmen
They Were Expendable
The Big Red One

Duncan Idaho

08-02-05, 08:02 PM

That movie's definitely worth seeing for the scene when Bob Newhart gets to do his trademark monologue schtick in a bunker ... he plays a timid little guy from the typing pool (I think) who accidentally winds up helping an exhausted and over-stretched unit defending part of the front. They know the Germans have left a microphone in the bunker which the Americans now occupy, so they get Newhart to pretend to phone HQ and bluff the eavesdropping Germans saying things like 'Oh no, sir, we really don't need any more men here. We're full to capacity and couldn't possibly fit another man in, so thanks anyway, but please don't send any more reinforcements ... Yes, sir, I know you want to find your men something to do. I hear there's still some fighting in the Pacific, perhaps you could send them over there?'

Oh oh, yeah, I remember seeing that one when I was just a kid. Didn't recall until you spoke up about Bob's line in the movie, and it flashed back on me. :)

Edit: Oh wow, I'm JAPANESE now, (New avatar for me)! I'm COOL! :lol:
Ever heard that song 'I think I'm turning Japanese'? I really think so! lol

Heheh, Ja mata ne minnasan!