The Big Red One

[Robches]

You've got to admire Lee Marvin, he was a hard man who was a US Marine combat veteran of WWII. Compare and contrast to pretty boys like Brad Pitt.

[Trumpton]

Oh arse!!! Fell alseep before it started AND forgot to tape it - aaaarrgghh!!!

[Flat_Eric]

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Yep. Absolutely. Also Charles Bronson (B-29 gunner in the Pacific). And Charles Durning (Bulge veteran and Malmedy Massacre survivor).

Whereas your Jude Laws, your Johnny Depps, your Orlando Blooms and your Brad Pitts probably couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.

[steve56]

Didnt know that about Bronson/Durning.

[jeffhaskeft]

there was even a playstation 2 game named call of duty 'the big red one'.

[Robches]

"Didnt know that about Bronson/Durning"

Me neither. According to Wikpedia Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in B29's, and flew bombing missions over Japan. Some of these old movie stars really had balls.

[Flat_Eric]

Robches wrote:

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Another one that I'd (amazingly) forgotten about was James Stewart.

I say amazingly, because he was arguably the "ballsiest" of them all.

He was a B-24 Liberator pilot, and flew many bombing missions over Germany in World War 2, eventually commanding his Bomb Group as Colonel, ending up as a Brigadier General (post-war) and combining his film career with his U.S. Air Force (Reserve) activities.

But as if all that wasn't enough, he also flew B-52 combat missions in the Vietnam War (something which wasn't widely publicised at the time).

[Pervert]

Strange, I don't see Mr Wayne being listed among the war heroes. And yet there he is in every war movie fighting for home, truth, freedom and the American way.

Think the director John Ford served in the second world war.

[Pervert]

Think we've had this argument before. My view is not so charitable---and I don't think Mr Ford's was either.