My vote was for the Great Escape, Steve McQueen was THE man back in the 60's-70's and the fact that he did not only his own motorcycle stunts (except for the big jump, the insurance company threatened to have a cow unless a stunt rider did it) but in the scenes when you see Steve ride by and then shortly after another motorcycle rides past and guess what, yep its Steve again this time as the german chasing him.
SPR was a good movie but it had its typical hollywood moments, what i liked most about it was it brought WWII to the eyes of many youths that until then only had the old WWII John Wayne movies to go by. I sat in a theatre filled with teens on a friday night and thought "these kids are gonna get a history lesson" 10 minutes into the movie there was dead silence in the auditorium.
On a side note, nobody here liked A Bridge Too Far?
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\"We\'re paratroopers. we\'re supposed to be surrounded\" ~ Cpt. Richard Winters ~ Bastogne Belgium, Winter 1944
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