100 Great War Movies: The Real History Behind the Films
246 PATTON time when anti- war sentiment was raging in the United States, an epic biopic about a gung-ho WWII general had to be ...
PIANIST, THE 247 Pianist, The (2002) Synopsis The Pianist, a co- production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Pol ...
248 PIANIST, THE En glish as The Pianist. Translations into 30 other languages soon followed. When director Roman Polanski, also ...
PIANIST, THE 249 Szpilman is happy to learn that Britain and France have declared war on Ger- many, but hope is short- lived; th ...
250 PLATOON garnered seven nominations and three of the most prestigious Oscars: Best Director (Polanski), Best Actor (Brody), a ...
PLATOON 251 film school, made a short 16-mm film about the war (Last Year in Vietnam, 1971), and wrote a number of other screenp ...
252 PLATOON crew members to use Philippine military equipment and cast local Viet nam ese ref- ugees. Scenes were shot in Mount ...
PLATOON 253 crew. Meanwhile, three soldiers die during a patrol, inciting anger among the troops as they uncover stored enemy su ...
254 PLATOON in February 1987 and four wins in March: Best Picture (Arnold Kopelson); Best Director (Oliver Stone); Best Editing ...
PORK CHOP HILL 255 and I prob ably should take him to see this. If anyone wants to know what the war is like, this would be a go ...
256 PORK CHOP HILL on the Western Front 28 years earlier. The filmmakers also benefited from the sup- port of the Pentagon, whic ...
PORK CHOP HILL 257 brainwash technique [i.e., an enemy battlefield loudspeaker broadcasting psycho- logical abuse to attacking U ...
Ran (1985) Synopsis Ran is a Japanese- French war film/period tragedy directed, edited, and co- written by Akira Kurosawa, adapt ...
RAN 259 Film Productions). After the box office success of Jean- Jacques Beineix’s Diva (1981), Silberman was able to put up mos ...
260 RAN of where to go, Hidetora and his com pany depart from Jiro’s castle. Tango finds his father and informs Hidetora of Taro ...
RAN 261 two dozen countries. Ran did not do very well at the box office, initially making only enough to break even. It did, how ...
Sahara (1943) Synopsis Sahara is an American war film directed by Zoltán Korda that stars Humphrey Bog- art as an American tank ...
SAHARA 263 to Humphrey Bogart after he and Donlevy traded movies. With the full coopera- tion of the War Department, shooting to ...
264 SAHARA up, Gunn changes the arrangement, demanding “guns for water.” Though the well has run dry, Gunn buys time by pretendi ...
SAND PEBBLES, THE 265 that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac [Mussolini] who has made of my country a concentration ca ...
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