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Not exactly overcast was it

posted 19 years ago by justiceforall272
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Looks like the weather didn't agree with most of the making of this movie. Many times I saw clear blue sunny skies.

[–] The_Khazi 19 years ago

I think it may be from Battleground(1949)where Ricardo Montalban delights at a ray of sunshine after weeks of snow & fog-slightly more intelligent film that one.

Yep the location scout should have been shot:we`ve got eveything here including snow & sand-the end tank battle looks more like Kursk!

[–] justiceforall272 19 years ago

Yeah, and I love the ending. German soldiers walking slowly back to Germany and no allies trying to take them prisoner. Haha

[–] SipteaHighTea 16 years ago

There was no Allied airpower in the movie when the tank battle occurred and the German General told his second in command to informed all units that the weather was clearing. Then again maybe the Allied Air Force still socked in by bad weather at where they were located.

[–] Mookie01 15 years ago

The best is the final shot in the film: Hessler's former orderly Konrad walking (home?) through what appears to be the Mojave Desert (I see from later research that it was the south of Spain) in summer time. And this is supposed to be January in the Ardennes?!

[–] [email protected] 13 years ago

agreed - trying to replicate a Belgian winter in the south of sunny Spain is a big ask and makes a nonsense of the plot line about the allied airforce being grounded due to bad weather. Just to make the film more believable I re-watched the DVD with the colour off (ie watched it in black and white). It made the movie a whole lot better viewing.