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Was there a remake of this? or was it put on TV in color?


I remember watching something very similar to this movie when I was 10(about 12 years ago) on HBO and I loved it. Except it was in color, and when the germans came out to negotiate a crazy guy offered to talk to him and told him that he wanted limbs for water i.e. one arm they get one pint of water, then they both ended up killing each other. I just bought the Humphrey B. version and it was so close to what I had orginally seen, just subtle differences. Any Idea?
This has been driving me nuts now since I had orginally saw in 12 years ago.

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Yes! HBO did a remake in the early 90s (92 - 95) with Jim Belushi in the Bogie role.

The remake is more of an action/drame and it cut a lot of the patriotic tones of the 40s version. Other than a few changes, the Belushi version stays close to the original script.

I have a copy of a copy of a copy. I enjoy watching it from time to time.

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man is there anyway that I can get a copy of that? I have been wanting to watch that version for so long now... Ill even pay ffor postage both ways.
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It was actually a Showtime movie starring Jim Belushi and directed by Brian Trenchard Smith.

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I believe in the Belushi version of the movie, the South African soldier was replaced by an Australian soldier in the cast. South Africa wasn't so popular in the early 90s, so the pre-PC substitution of that time was a bit ahead of it's time.

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i saw the 1995 remake of this starring james belushi when i was a kid, i had no idea until now that was hbo or showtime made, it was released on vhs in my country as a regular movie, at the time i liked it but i haven't seen it for years, i remember some scenes as much more vision like brutal, but this original was very intense and what a different role for the lead, or the tank was the lead, right, might be the only time i've seen bogart without a suit and hat, i sat through this entire movie without realising lloyd bridges was in the cast, i only recognise him as an older actor in 1980's and 90's spoof comedies, in fact i didn't recognise any of the cast besides bogart, they obviously got an african to put on an accent to play the muslim, i thought it was don king, okey, he got the best gig there in the well, away from the hot sun and turmoil being able to sip the water that got around the gathering, the french part got on my patience, it was all well and forgotten by the end though when he faced the enemy, but i got a feeling they left out scenes not to show him get in the gutter with the german, who really wasted no time to order around the italian, considering the age of the movie the parts where they got to know each other was tense, the reason i got around to buy this was because i had seen a modern mainstream flick with today's... movie stars? with identical title and i just thought, right, i can't be dealing with this, i'd watch the 1995 tv movie with belushi any time even though i don't know what i'd think about it today, but this was something else.



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