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This place among qualified experts into old movies,seem to be the right place to ask about an american film...only saw it on television, and remember it to be in black and white.
Mel brooks made a version of the original, called: springtime for Hitler, but the original I found even more fun and exiting.
Any idea what it was ? must have been made during the sixties I guess
In the vintage WWII category my first would be "12 O' Clock High" made in 1949 when original era uniforms were still available. The movie trys to help americans understand in reverse history how low morale actually was overseas and what airman in certain theatres endured.
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You must be thinking of "The Producers". Originally a Mel Brooks movie of 1968 . Recently (2005) it was remade.
I suspect that you are confusing two Mel Brooks' films.This place among qualified experts into old movies,seem to be the right place to ask about an american film...only saw it on television, and remember it to be in black and white.
Mel brooks made a version of the original, called: springtime for Hitler, but the original I found even more fun and exiting.
Any idea what it was ? must have been made during the sixties I guess
My wife tells me that when she attended the SAC NCO Academy in 1990 they showed "12 O'Clock High" as a lesson in leadership styles and effectiveness. They didn't show it at the TAC NCOA I attended, but I was already very familiar with it. I first read the book in junior high, and had watched it every chance I got once I found out it had been made into a movie. Still a favorite!
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Tom
I suspect that you are confusing two Mel Brooks' films.
In 1942 Ernst Lubitsch directed Jack Benny and Carole Lombard in "To Be or Not To Be" an extremely sophisticated comedy about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Poland. In 1983 Mel Brooks did a remake of the film (directed by Alan Johnson) starring himself and Anne Bancroft in the starring roles; it's enjoyable, but falls short of the original.
Brooks also did "The Producers" (1968) a film about two unlikely Broadway producers who set out to produce a flop, with rather predictable results. The play they choose to produce is "Spring Time For Hitler"... you can imagine the rest.
Any love for : Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid or Joe vs. The Volcano ?
Any love for : Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid or Joe vs. The Volcano ?
I think Bladerunner, the Final Cut is the best sci-fi film ever made. It makes you ask what makes us human.