War and Remembrance

WW2:

Roots. The Thorn Birds. V. The Winds of War. The North and the South. From Here to Eternity. The Day After. Masada. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSfX61yWSwc 

War and Remembrance was very emotional - Ali could never have pulled it off. I loved watching Polly Burgen (?) play Rhoda and the fact that I wanted to shake her for her flighty, shallow lack of character. Just as there could be NO MAN who could have played Rhett Butler other than Gable, Pug Henry could have been played by NO Man but Mitchum. It has taken me the 4th time to watch this, to realize that Jan who played Byron Henry played him JUST right as he was JUST like Pug . What I considered a stiff performance the first 3 times, I realized was a to play him just as he was - the son of Pug - steady as a rock, observed his surroundings and then made logical decisions and acted without fear regardless of the consequences. I need to read the book after all these years.

Ah, Victoria Tennant ... when I first watched this series I fell in love with her (those magnificent, searching eyes!). Beyond the obvious, she was one of the better actors in this series, along with Polly Berger. Mitchum was wooden throughout, although he had his moments (and his Russian wasn’t bad at all!). I won’t talk about Jan Michael Vincent or Ally McGraw, other then to say they were dreadful.
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An awesome series! Watching it for the second time. An incredible story written by Herman Wouk to begin with. Love the weaving of Henry family life into historical fact during WW2. Has everything, plus laughter and heartbreak, lol.
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[@annava7786]

@annava7786

1 year ago
Really great series. I watch it every couple of years. I watched it first as a young person and now as an older person. I marvel at that Greatest Generation who did what had to done. Thanks so much for making it available.
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[@pilotusa]

@pilotusa

5 months ago
Great series and great story, The satellite tv where I live is showing this series now but it is too difficult to follow the way the channel jumbles up the episodes, so I decided to come to YouTube. Thanks for providing the entire series for me to "binge watch". Mitchum is an incredible actor who manages to pull off amazing scenes with only one facial expresion for the entire 15 hours....in fact Mitchum is noted for that in all his pictures and he wore it as a badge of honor. But....if you look quickly and closely....Mitchum almost manages a smile within the last 10 minutes of the series when his daughter-in-law suggests a cause for a celebration.
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[@auntbelinda6501]

@auntbelinda6501

1 year ago
For anyone who really loves this series I highly suggest that you read the complete 2 volume set of, "The Winds of War." This 7 series mini series ends at the end of volume 1!! There is MUCH MUCH more to the story of the "Warrens!" Natalie, the baby, and her Uncle end up in a Nazi prison camp, Rhoda and Pug get a divorce, Warren goes missing in action, tons and tons of other things occur!!!

Each volume is over 700 pages of wonderful historically accurate detail and story interwoven that keep you turning page after page! I was given this 2 volume set as a graduation gift in 1976, and I treasure it!! Admittedly read it about once a decade, you will not regret the expense.

The Pearl Harbor attack scenes were filmed at Port Hueneme, CA about 30 miles up the coast from Malibu. I remember getting up on the roof of my house about an hour before sunset and seeing several Japanese Zeros flying overhead making a bombing run over the Port and then a lot of explosions going off on the ground. I was in high school at the time and during classes we could hear the Japanese Zeros flying overhead.

1 year ago
Before the president gave his speech and declared war on Japan, the British beat him too it and declared war on Japan first. Their reasoning was that in case Roosevelt wanted to negotiate to stop it,  the British declaration would prove too embarrassing for the USA not to declare war.. This attack provoked Churchill to say, " When this happened, I knew we had won!"
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[@bill2953]

@bill2953

1 year ago
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[@iangrantham8300]

@iangrantham8300

1 year ago
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[@bill2953]

@bill2953

1 year ago
 @iangrantham8300  Your wife...
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[@iangrantham8300]

@iangrantham8300

1 year ago
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[@bill2953]

@bill2953

1 year ago
 @iangrantham8300  Told you to stick with sheep. lol
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[@thevillaaston7811]

@thevillaaston7811

1 year ago
Churchill also stated that he knew that the war would be won when Germany attacked Russia. Also, that Chamberlain knew that Britain had already turned he corner before he died.
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[@67nairb]

@67nairb

6 months ago
Also because the Japanese were threatening the British Empire in Asia notably Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore.
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[@mikebryant8122]

@mikebryant8122

3 years ago (edited)
Fairly interesting, as we are in Moscow for this episode... Victoria Tennant (Ms Tudbury): "Her mother, Irina Baronova, was a Russian prima ballerina who appeared with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Her maternal grandfather, Mikhail Baronov, was a senior officer in the Russian Navy; his wife, Lydia Vishniakova, was a general's daughter."