Strange opening. By this time of the war, the Germans well knew not to go anywhere in a vehicle in broad daylight. I was expecting an aerial massacre of those civilians in the truck.
And I cannot imagine the USAAF wasting ammo on a young couple on a country road.
Someone pointed out how pretty the little young girl was/is. Actress Paul Schramm is 5-1 !. Hopefully, she's a mother of equally beautiful little children by now.
The original was discreet about - didn't waste time on - sex. It did show better how vicious "authorities" become with their impending defeat.
The film was sympathetic to the GIs who with one exception were just the enemy in the original. And I was astonished to see an original American M4 Sherman tank in this one, although the cardboard version did have the essence of the tank.
But I strongly doubt veteran GIs would have bunched up like that. Amazing, most all of them weren't mowed down by the MG42 in the first 700rpm burst. And they would have immediately moved to flank the position, and they would have thrown a blizzard of grenades.
The "battle" would have been over in 5 minutes.
In comparison to the original, in this one the corporal was deserting, and the German MPs aren't so vilified for killing him. The boy-and-girl-happy-ever-after was different from the original, which is best viewed in its black and white.
More Westerners should see this, and then maybe we would be more for ending the Ukraine War ... unconditionally and stopping tragedy like this.
It did hold my interest.
And I cannot imagine the USAAF wasting ammo on a young couple on a country road.
Someone pointed out how pretty the little young girl was/is. Actress Paul Schramm is 5-1 !. Hopefully, she's a mother of equally beautiful little children by now.
The original was discreet about - didn't waste time on - sex. It did show better how vicious "authorities" become with their impending defeat.
The film was sympathetic to the GIs who with one exception were just the enemy in the original. And I was astonished to see an original American M4 Sherman tank in this one, although the cardboard version did have the essence of the tank.
But I strongly doubt veteran GIs would have bunched up like that. Amazing, most all of them weren't mowed down by the MG42 in the first 700rpm burst. And they would have immediately moved to flank the position, and they would have thrown a blizzard of grenades.
The "battle" would have been over in 5 minutes.
In comparison to the original, in this one the corporal was deserting, and the German MPs aren't so vilified for killing him. The boy-and-girl-happy-ever-after was different from the original, which is best viewed in its black and white.
More Westerners should see this, and then maybe we would be more for ending the Ukraine War ... unconditionally and stopping tragedy like this.
It did hold my interest.