"Hollywood at War" Group Build

Hans von Hammer wrote:

As long as the Sahara you're talikng about stars Humphrey Bogart and and an M-3...

Yes, I mean Bogey with the M3.

Here's one of my first references:

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r450/tautog_ss199/Hollywoodwar/downloadblog.jpg

I understand the German plane straffing 'Lulubelle' in the film was a P-51B. Something to consider for the scene  I decide to model.

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Although I haven't seen the remake, it appears, according to the IMDB, that "Lulubelle" was a Sherman instead of a Lee.

Definately a Lee in the original. Dunno what they used in the James Belushi re-make, haven't seen it.

I think the guy that posted at IMDB doesn't know armor... Looking at the cover, it sure looks like a Lee to me...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sahara-James-Belushi/dp/B00004CS35

Could be just for the cover. Maybe in the film it's an M4

Got so excited about this build I had to make my own little build bage with a poster from the movie.

Hans! Fabulous concept! Good for you!

I love the dates, too. Consider me in with an uncommitted build. The imagination reels!

(I will put dibs on the final scene from 'Casablanca' with the WB knock-off of a Ryan or Ford airplane.)

I'll do my research whatever I decide! 

Hans von Hammer wrote:

List is updated...

Hans,

For ease of updating, maybe you should edit your first post on this thread to include the list.

John Belushi is in 1941... The remake of the Bogart film, Sahara, stars Jim Belushi. 

I've been raggin on the local Blockbuster guy, they don't even have it listed. I have a copy of the Bogart version, still thinking hard. My IDF GB subject is almost done, and I've turned a new page in my life and comitted to "one at a time", GB for now.....

Man, I need to go home......

Hans, what a great idea!! Sign me up...Now, where do I start??? So many possibilities!!!     

-Stephen

bostonbruins34 wrote:

Hans, what a great idea!! Sign me up...Now, where do I start??? So many possibilities!!!      -Stephen

Heh... Two re-enactors doing re-enactments of acting....

I got lucky and TCM ran the original a few days ago and I taped it... Still gotta see Belushi's tho..

Hans,

I'd like to sign up for this as well.  The lead time is long enough for me to figure out what to do from my four movie choices:

The Lighthorsemen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093416/

The Thin Red Line http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/

Saving Private Ryan

The Great Raid

If I can get ahold of some WWI Aussie troops and some horses, then I KNOW what I'm going to do.

Hans,

I would like to sign up too. So many possiblities with this one. I am thinking maybe something from 1941, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Apocalypse Now, or Band of Brothers. Good excuse to start watching war movies. 

Just asking, would anything from Transformers be ok?

Just asking, would anything from Transformers be ok?

Ummm.... No...Transformers would fall into Sci-Fi... I am letting movies like 1941 in because the setting was WW2, even though it's a comedy.  There's a lot of comedies that were set during wartime, so they'll fly, overall.  Movies like Sgt. Bilko, Independence Day, or Stripes won't since, although they were set on military bases, had military personel as the focus, or had military involvement in the story, they don't have a (historical) wartime setting.

Any of the movies you named are fine though.. Even though Band of Brothers is techically a TV mini-series, rather than a "war movie", it was too good to leave out...

Hey Hans,

I have been thinking. Is Top Gun ok or not. It isn't really a war movie even though there are some scenes were they are in combat, but it focuses on the Navy's Top Gun School and does have the parts were they are engaged with enemy aircraft. Of course, I would be modeling one of the combat scenes.

After very careful consideration, I decided that: Top Gun is more an action/adventure movie than a war movie, in the classic sense, and you said as much yourself... I also thought about, if F-14s were your main focus, The Final Countdown would work, but I dismissed that one as well, since its focus is time-travel, rather than the Second World War, which puts it into the Sci-Fi category.

So, overall, I'd have to say "no" to both Top Gun and The Final Countdown.  If you were set on getting an F-14 diorama built, I'm sorry.  Those two movies are the only ones I'm aware of that featured Tomcats in combat, but the genre is just this side of wrong...

Sorry, man...     

Hans,

How bout something from the following: Dances With Wolves, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, or They Died with Their Boots On?

Westerns, huh.. Well...  If they're military scenes that take place during the Indian Wars or the Civil War, sure...   The US Army's flag carries battle streamers from the Indian Wars...

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Westerns, huh.. Well...  If they're military scenes that take place during the Indian Wars or the Civil War, sure...   The US Army's flag carries battle streamers from the Indian Wars...

Thanks.  Have found figures of Dunbar's "just shoot me" scene in Dances, and of Custers's last stand.  Haven't done figures in many years and have never done a mounted figure.