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Bill, I really enjoyed the action shots done in the Ocala Mountains.

Beleave it or not they found an old lime rock pit and shot most of it there. If anyone gets to see the movie its hard to believe it was shot in cental Florida (and other locations) We I went on location I never knew anything like that area was so close to home and I have been here for 20 years. I have the DVD and will try and down load some M37 action.

Hi Bill,
I just looked, Netflix has the celestine prophesy. I will put it on my cue and see your trucks. Is the one you gave me a ride in one from the movie?
Tim

Lifer,

Same here. The wife and I were watching a Hallmark Christmas movie last week. A guy was having Vietnam flashbacks. In one scene there were maple trees and a mowed lawn in the background behind the soldiers I quickly pointed this out and the wife says "It's a movie..."

Lets not forget the M37's as German trucks in "Hogan's Heros"

There are a few shots of some M37's in the opening scene of Platoon.

I was watching "it's a mad mad mad mad world" the other day and there is an M37 wrecker in that movie with a one peice windshield.

On a some what related note, in one of those "Frankie & Annette" beach movies, there is a WC62 1.5 ton Dodge weapons carrier that is in several scenes through out. Bad movie,great truck. wish I could remember which one (in particular) of those "master peices" that truck was in. If memory serves, under it's '60s inspired paint job one could still see the original GI markings.
Matt

Now we are going to have to sit thru 7 or eight really bad Annette & Franke movies..........maybe it will snow again?

Bruce
One good thing I can say about the F&A movie with the WC62 is that it (the Dodge) is in the opening scenes of the movie so you don't have to sit too long into it before you are "rewarded" for your ability to stand up to that kind of "torchure."

Matt

MikeOneSix wrote: On a some what related note, in one of those "Frankie & Annette" beach movies, there is a WC62 1.5 ton Dodge weapons carrier that is in several scenes through out. Bad movie,great truck. wish I could remember which one (in particular) of those "master peices" that truck was in.

Okay! Okay! Quit picking on Annette and Frankie! I happen to be part of that generation who loved those movies. I don't remember any MV scenes in any of them though. My eyes were glued to Annette (and Candy Johnson's fringe). Now that I know there's an OD truck in there somewhere, I have an excuse to watch Annette (I mean the movie!) again.

Lifer
If you like those movies well, then that's ok by me. They were simple entertainment from a more innocent time. Unlike what's put out by Hollywood today. I can't think of one (modern) movie today that has both MVs and such well behaved middle aged teenagers in it .


Another movie with a lot of "M series" vehicles in it was "Battle of the Buldge" with Henry Fonda. One of the few correct soft skins in that movie was the WC 51 weapons carrier used by the engineers when the stumble apon the fake MPs.

Matt

Not to drift off subject but "Battle of the Buldge" got the flying MVs wrong. When Henry Fonda convinces a reluctant pilot to take him up to look for the German tanks they are flying an L-19 Birddog. Unfortunately the Birddog first flew in Dec. '49 and was first delivered to the Army in Dec. '50. The proper aircraft would have been a Stinson L-5 or a Piper L-4. But they worked with what they had to film with so I'll give them a pass on it. Besides I like the movie. I won't get into the wrong aircraft in "The Longest Day" because they actually got a lot of them right. I can't recall much of the rolling stock in that one. But again I don't really care - it's one of my favorites........

Av8r
When you see something that is period incorrect in a movie just do what I do and say it's "experimental" .

I happen to like the battle of the buldge movie because I'm a fan of the M47 Patton tank and that's what the "Germans" were using for Panzers in that movie. Come to think of it, that's pretty much what they used in a lot of those old war movies (M47s)*:?.

* a lot of those old war movies were filmed in places like Spain with the assistance of the (Spanish) Military. The AFVs used in the films were usually part of some reserve unit on loan to the production company.

Matt

In "The Longest Day" the French Army stood in for much of the action on the beaches. In fact I believe the really famous scene from that movie - the landing and liberation of Ouistreham by the free French forces - was actually portrayed by current French soldiers. Something of a fitting tribute I think. However Port-en-Bessin a few miles down the beach to the west stood in for Oistreham in the movie. Also I believe it was during filming of "The Longest Day" they discovered a buried tank near the beach, and after a clean up and paint it was used as a prop for the filming. I could watch the old machinery in these old movies all day...........

MikeOneSix wrote:Lifer
If you like those movies well, then that's ok by me. They were simple entertainment from a more innocent time. Unlike what's put out by Hollywood today. I can't think of one (modern) movie today that has both MVs and such well behaved middle aged teenagers in it .

I have to admit that the plot lines in those movies was pretty weak and sappy, but I had to endure them in order to ogle Annette! I "fell in love" with her when we were both 10 years old and she was still a Mousketeer.