PICTURE, QUOTE, MOVIE #64

1.  What movie is the picture from?

2.  What movie is this quote from?

Me and General McAulliffe decided to move I Company up on the line. That is if you agree.

3.  What movie is this?

Many feel that it is Akira Kurosawa’s greatest masterpiece.   He certainly meant for it to be.  He got the idea for a samurai epic years before but career setbacks (like being fired from “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and funding issues set things back and the film almost did not get made.  In fact it was only intervention by fans Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas that provided the extra funding needed to put the movie over the top (and to help pay for stuff like importing 200 American horses including numerous female equestrian riders).  Those two incredibly hot directors were blown away by the story board paintings Kurosawa did himself to outline the film.  Language Film.  Kurosawa won the BAFTA for Direction.