Wah hey! Another Channel 4 “Hundred Best” programme.
This one is something like the “Hundred Greatest War Films“.
We’re only at number 98 at the moment – 100 was Rambo, and 98 one I’ve never heard of.
But at 99, we find The Eagle Has Landed. The first book I ever borrowed from the Nottingham High School library. And a great film.
How can it be at only number 99? Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter. For its time, a star-studded cast.
Oh well.
96 is Cold Mountain – a very different kind of war film…
And Regeneration is at 90. Another great book and film – but one that I’d kind of forgotten about.
Stephen Spielberg is, apparently, a big fan of the Great Escape and, umm, Von Ryan’s Express.
Anyway. My bet for number 1? Saving Private Ryan. Or maybe Apocalypse Now (the Redux version). And Schindler’s List should definitely be up there (if it counts). The Longest Day has always been a personal favourite of mine – although it’s not actually that good! Huge names, though… Let’s wait and see, though.
I agree with Saving Ryan’s Privates for number 1 … must remember to set the video…
He chose … poorly
What an evening of televisual entertainment! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (easily the best of the three), followed by another two-and-a-quarter hours of the Greatest War Films in the World of All Time Ever. And to think that I could (should?) be …