The producers mentioned that " some of the scenes happened elsewhere during the conflict" Sorta like..." Off Cam Historical "🤔 But still , I still watch it a couple of times.
Right you are, that’s why I loved it as a kid. But I later learned that it was so historically inaccurate that an officer who was well acquainted with the battle campaigned against its release.
They filmed it in Spain and after 3 scenes the snow was gone. But 5 years later in "Patton" filmed in the same spots the snow was there, just bad timing.
In 1965 the “Battle Of The Bulge” was fought in theatres around the world. It is a thrilling movie with splendid performances by Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Hans Christian Blech and especially Robert Shaw, as Oberst Hessler. Unfortunately, it lacks historic accuracy a lot, which often bothers people (even those, who aren’t much into the subject). However, as mentioned before, the movie itself is exciting and worth watching apart from its accuracy. It was directed by Ken Anakin, who had a busy time just having finished “Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines” to directly jump into the “Battle Of The Bulge”. Composer of “Magnificent Men”, Ron Goodwin recalled that he had little to no contact to Anakin at all, caused by that, which would change for their collaboration on its sequel “Monte Carlo Or Bust” later on. For “Battle Of The Bulge” another of Britain’s finest composers at the time, Benjamin Frankel was asked to compose the score, which he did superbly, even earning a Golden Globe nomination. His music is written and lush orchestrated, sounding sometimes as thought for the concert hall, instead for a movie. Another treat is the implementation of the “Panzerlied” (Tankmen’s song), composed by Kurt Wiehle, which becomes the centerpiece of the movie. Enjoy!
It has as much to do with historical accuracy as Inglorious Basterds or Gunfight at the OK Corral or Sands of Iwo Jima does. I pray nobody thinks this is anything but a good movie that has something accidentally in it about something that happened even if the writer failed history class.
Ok...outside of the great soundtrack. The movie is awful. From palm trees and sunshine to the Germans trying to get a fuel dump. This movie reminded of the big disaster films where they tried to put every popular actor into a role. The movie just didn't work. Heck, even as a kid i knew it was a mess. They should have called it something else. Because it definitely wasn't the battle of the bulge.
The sound of the Tiger's cannon played on timpani. The sound of the caterpillars creaking on their wheels played on piccolo. It was a wonderful theme music that symbolized the Tiger tank.
Having watched BotB too many times to count (everybody remember the TV-cut version? Bleah) I have ended up focusing on Guffy. Telly Savalas was outstanding in this movie- so many great one liners and his attitude is just golden. "If there's one thing I'm not gonna be after the war, it's POOR!"... "Not THAT way, idiot!"
This soundtrack and viewing the movie in Cinerama must have been quite the experience. Accurate or not, this movie was vivid as hell, a sort of WW2 combat musical on steroids. Even Eisenhower couldn't stand the excitement. He walked out of the movie and took out a full page editorial in the NYT denouncing it.
No way. Gerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack for “Tora Tora Tora” is the winner for me. The way he builds the tension at the opening credits is absolutely extraordinary.
The finale at 13:30 sends chills down my spine. I first saw the film at age 8 with my dad in a theater in Boston. This movie had an intermission with music.
le film n'est pas très bon : il est sensé se passer dans les Ardennes en décembre 1944 mais on voit qu'il a été tourné en Espagne (la végétation est méditerranéenne). La bataille de Bastogne est trop vite expédiée et entendre des Allemands et des Français parler anglais est un peu gênant.
I actually enjoyed the film a bit and it's music. Sure, it's not a very accurate WWII movie but it's just about tanks, if you're a big fan of war tanks, you might enjoy this one.
The film captured the spirit of the battle. Just as in the scene where the fuel dump is set afire and the attacks ends. In truth Hitler did send his tanks without enough fuel hoping to capture it as they went. What kind of genius would think this is a good battle plan.
