DVD Please...
Please... And it better be the Black & White version. ;)
shareYeah, I'll go for a DVD of this great movie....I first saw it in the early fifties and it is still one of the best looking war movies ever made. I'm also waiting for a DVD of the Milagro Beanfield War, and The High and the Mighty
shareI'm not sure what "Milagro" is doing here unless it's a personal favorite. Other Wellman films on DVD include the he and Wayne made and THE OX-BOW INCIDENT. ISLAND IN THE SKY is negligible but it does have a terrific cast and an excellent commentary track by Leonard Maltin, James Lydon, Darryl Hickman and somebody else.
There are a number of actors who form a stock company in Wellman's films: Douglas Fowley and George Chandler come to mind.
I never noticed Fowley's false teeth in any other movie. His best role is probably in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.
For people my age Chandler would always be the Grandfather on LASSIE after, I think, George Cleveland. It's amazing how many times he turns up unbilled in films. Somewhere I have a book REEL CHARACTERS with interviews with Chandler, Anita Garvin, Charles Lane, Fritz Feld and others. I think Lane is still alive and over a 100 now.
I still remember the WASHINGTON POST interviewing Garvin and Whit Bissell some years ago. Garvin said she didn't want to do a cameo in BATTLE OF THE CENTURY with Laurel and Hardy where she plays a very elegant lady who slips on a custard pie and goes splat! But guess what she's remembered for? By the way, one of the extras in that short is a young Lou Costello. Kind of staggers the mind. Costello and Laurel and Hardy in the same movie.