Movie Remembered......................

[Scott]

In an earlier post someone mentioned Doug McClure from AT THE EARTH'S CORE and I couldn't remember McClures name and wanted to know because he starred in one of my favorite movies when I was a kid that I couldnt recall the title of. Now I know the name of the film it was THE LONGEST HUNDRED MILES (1967) a.k.a. Escape from Bataan about a military guy who is trying to escape Japanese occupied Luzon in the Philippines, but gets caught up trying to help an orphanage of kids. They try to make it to an airstrip on an old bus to get out of the country by meeting up with an aircraft. Great film wish I could see it again. It was made for TV .

Here are some other films that I would like to see again that I haven't been able to find in a while.

Beau Geste (1966)
Gargoyles (1972)
Duel (1971)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

You know, Speaking of Bataan, I am a huge fan of the movie "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"... not a "b" flick in my book, but one I have loved.  
-Ed

[ToyMan]

what a great title. that's like saying "this is the heaviest 100 pound sack of feathers EVER!!!"...

[BoyScoutKevin]

And Ricardo Montalban as the priest, if I remember it correctly.

Beau Geste (1966) Another good one. With Guy Stockwell and Doug McClure as the Geste Brothers. Also Telly Savalas, Leslie Nielsen, Leo Gordon, and Malachi Throne. Charlton Heston gave some thought of taking the Savalas role in the film, but decided not to in the end.

Though, if you want a version that more closely follows the book, which actually gave rise to a whole series of books, then see the version with Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the Geste Brothers.

Bataan actually gave rise to two good films made during WWII, "Back to Bataan" w/ John Wayne and Anthony Quinn, and my favorite, "Bataan" w/ Robert Walker, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan, Ed Nelson, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lee Bowman, and Desi Arnaz and others, in a last ditch stand on Bataan, trying to hold off waves of fanatical Japanese, until only one of them is left, firing a heavy machine gun at the attacking Japanese and surrounded by the graves of the others.

One interesting fact about the casting, the filmmakers, most likely because it was  1943, caught hell, because they cast a black actor, Lee Bowman, as one of the American soldiers.

Yeah, they don't show movies like they use to on TV. Too much modern stuff. Not enough of the older stuff.