Re: LRO: Kelly's Heroes : Re: LRs in WWII movies

From: Steve Mace (steve@solwise.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 05:29:00 EDT

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    and it was on the box about two nights ago...

    Good entertainment value.

    On 4 Apr 2001, at 12:57, Paul Quin wrote:

    > Makes me think of the scene from "Kelly's Heroes" where Donald Sutherland's
    > driver trades his Sherman for his dream Tiger. He was very shocked to find
    > out just how bad the conditions were inside the Tiger. At least that movie
    > (Starring Clint Eastwood among many others - great movie...) made an attempt
    > having the tanks look like Tigers. I think that they were actually plywood
    > mock-ups on some other tank chassis as the turrets were just to big compared
    > the rest of the hull...

    Steve

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