The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83866   Message #1544818
Posted By: Peter T.
18-Aug-05 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Worst War Film
Subject: RE: BS: Worst War Film
The Errol Flynn Norway film is called Edge of Darkness -- it opens with a village full of dead people, and the rest of the film is a flashback. It turns out that Errol Flynn was simultaneously undergoing his rape trial, and bedding Ann Sheridan (who was at that time married to George Brent, who caught the two of them at it, and divorced her). This is what I call taking the war to the home front!

I saw Zulu recently and I suddenly remembered why I had thought it was a great film when it first came out -- half naked Zulu women! None of the rest of the film registered for me at the time (1960). The interplay with the drunken preacher and his lissome daughter and all of that stuff is way over the top. It was nice to see the Zulu warriors get some film time, but they are still portrayed as somewhat antlike and dim-witted.   

No one has mentioned Gallipoli or Breaker Morant.

yours,

Peter T.

P.S. I believe Objective: Burma is the film referred to above, and guess what! Errol is in that one too.