Basic is the tale of six Rangers and their training officer go into the Pamana jungle on a training mission in the middle of a hurricane but only two of the trainees come out of the jungle alive, one badly wounded. When the un-wounded soldier is questioned he requests to speak to a Ranger off [...]
June 25, 2006
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Where Eagles Dare
An allied commando force, parachute into Germany to rescue an American General who has been captured. This general knows when and where the ’second front’ will take place, and if the germans get this information from him, the war will be extended by years.
Alistair MacLean wrote the screen play for this movie and [...]
June 23, 2006
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The potential end of the world from the view point of a newspaper reporter. The two world superpowers (US and USSR) detonate the biggest nuclear tests ever, unknowingly at the same time, with the effect being that the earths rotation changes.
As Sci Fi movies go, TDTECF is a strange one. It doesn’t have flying saucers [...]
June 22, 2006
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