Saturday, June 16, 2018

PICTURE, QUOTE, MOVIE #35


1.  What movie is the picture from?

2.  What movie is this quote from?

"Generals can do anything. There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield. "

3.  What movie is this?


  It is based on a non-fiction book entitled Le Front de l’Art by Rose Valland.  The film was originally helmed by Arthur Penn, but co-producer and star Burt Lancaster axed him because Penn wanted to make more of a character study and Lancaster insisted the action be revved up.  The film was shot on location in France.  No models were used.  The air bombardment of the marshalling yard was symbiotic because the French government wanted the area cleared anyway.  (That less than one minute scene required fifty men wiring TNT for six weeks.)  Lancaster (51) did all of his stunts.  This included sliding down a hillside.  When he injured his knee stepping in a hole while golfing, it was written into the script that he would be wounded while fleeing under fire.  

4 comments:

  1. First one is a guess: 1: Zero Dark Thirty, 2: Gettysberg, 3: The Train

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    1. Correct on the second and third, good guess on the first. Think Benghazi.

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    2. Ahhh...13 hours. I've seen it but that picture just didn't ring a bell.

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