Memphis Belle (1990)
Country: GB
Technical: col 106m
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan
Synopsis:
The last mission of an American daylight bomber is a publicity coup for a PR man but a fight to survive the war for the men involved.
Review:
Like Petersen's Das Boot an absorbing portrayal of the technical and comradely aspects of a fighting machine, even if in its heroic aspects it is rather more old-fashioned. In a way it succeeds by dint of this approach, reviving time-honoured war movie clichés after the grittiness of more recent films based on more recent wars. Very well made within its pre-CGI limitations (one did not after all want to trash the few remaining B-17s) and with a cumulatively powerful impact on the viewer, though one does once again wonder at how we ever won the war if the Yanks behaved as they do here.
Country: GB
Technical: col 106m
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan
Synopsis:
The last mission of an American daylight bomber is a publicity coup for a PR man but a fight to survive the war for the men involved.
Review:
Like Petersen's Das Boot an absorbing portrayal of the technical and comradely aspects of a fighting machine, even if in its heroic aspects it is rather more old-fashioned. In a way it succeeds by dint of this approach, reviving time-honoured war movie clichés after the grittiness of more recent films based on more recent wars. Very well made within its pre-CGI limitations (one did not after all want to trash the few remaining B-17s) and with a cumulatively powerful impact on the viewer, though one does once again wonder at how we ever won the war if the Yanks behaved as they do here.
Country: GB
Technical: col 106m
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan
Synopsis:
The last mission of an American daylight bomber is a publicity coup for a PR man but a fight to survive the war for the men involved.
Review:
Like Petersen's Das Boot an absorbing portrayal of the technical and comradely aspects of a fighting machine, even if in its heroic aspects it is rather more old-fashioned. In a way it succeeds by dint of this approach, reviving time-honoured war movie clichés after the grittiness of more recent films based on more recent wars. Very well made within its pre-CGI limitations (one did not after all want to trash the few remaining B-17s) and with a cumulatively powerful impact on the viewer, though one does once again wonder at how we ever won the war if the Yanks behaved as they do here.