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Quiz: Highest Grossing WW II Film
Jan 19, 2018 11:27:34 #
Jan 19, 2018 11:29:33 #
Lets add a twist to this contest. Who would you nominate as Best Actor in Best Role of a WW2 film. I nominate Frank Sinatra in From Here To Eternity. There are a couple of Clark Gable goodies, too.
Jan 19, 2018 11:35:01 #
ntonkin
Loc: western Upper Peninusla of Michigan
I don't think this is technically correct. Including the DVD revenues, Saving Private Ryan grossed $525.8 million in 1998... thats $774.2 million in 2016 dollars.
Jan 19, 2018 12:10:02 #
I always liked "Mr. Roberts" and "The Caine Mutiny" . They were not the shooting type of war movie but the characters they developed were very interesting and showed human reaction to wartime conditions.
Jan 19, 2018 12:29:12 #
Obviously the answers were not adjusted for inflation! A dollar today is not the same as a dollar ten years ago or 60 years ago!
Jan 19, 2018 13:42:27 #
Have not seen Dunkirk yet,,,,Favorite War Movie Dr. Strangelove followed by The Fog of War and All Quiet on the Western Front....
Jan 19, 2018 14:49:16 #
Where Eagles Dare has been a favorite of mine for a long time.
Dunkirk was quite good, especially in IMAX.
Dunkirk was quite good, especially in IMAX.
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Jan 19, 2018 16:02:27 #
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Jan 19, 2018 20:05:15 #
Valsmere
Loc: New Jersey
Pegasus wrote:
Where Eagles Dare has been a favorite of mine for a long time.
Dunkirk was quite good, especially in IMAX.
Dunkirk was quite good, especially in IMAX.
Agreed 100%
I enjoyed Dunkirk honestly because it was about an event I really haven't looked into yet. Funny thing is that I have read a ton of books about WW 2 I just haven't gotten to that area yet of the war
Jan 19, 2018 21:29:59 #
jerryc41 wrote:
This one surprised me.
https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/the-highest-grossing-world-war-ii-film-of-all-time-is/
https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/the-highest-grossing-world-war-ii-film-of-all-time-is/
I had heard how good Dunkirk was so I bought the DVD. I was very disappointed. The continuity was difficult to follow and the main event of saving the troops was not handled very well. A lot of disappointing irregularities from realities. Gave the DVD away.
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Jan 19, 2018 22:41:21 #
Feiertag wrote:
Jerry, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" would have been my guess, not Dunkirk, which I watched last week. It was okay but no big deal.
That got my vote also. It is my favorite war film and I have watched it over a dozen times. I rarely watch a movie more than once but a few like that one, "Lawrence of Arabia", "Pretty Woman", "What About Bob", and "Mystic Pizza" I have seen several times.
A movie that wasn't on the list because it doesn't seem like a WWII movie (but actually was) may have been the top Grossing Film but left off the list for reasons stated. That film would be "The Sound of Music". I know it stayed in one movie theater in Memphis for one solid year!
Jan 20, 2018 09:47:31 #
TSOM was not a Word War 2 movie. The events occured prior to the invasion of Poland by the Nazis and the USSR.
Jan 20, 2018 15:11:36 #
The category was Highest GROSSING World War II picture. Ticket prices being what they are I am not surprised.
Jan 20, 2018 16:22:03 #
repleo wrote:
I thought it would have been The Longest Day.
Or "A Bridge Too Far".
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