Klaus wrote:
Its actually from a Russian series called Shtrafbat
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Thanks Klaus; been wondering about that for long time.
Another favorite WWII movie of mine is 'Midway' (1976); I saw this at the old Americana West movie theater in Detroit when I was eight years old. 'Midway' was filmed well for a pre-Star Wars film (it was also the second of only four films released with a Senssurround sound mix which required special speakers to be installed in movie theatres) though you can tell the pilots are just sitting in a cockpit in front of the camera. Most of the combat footage is taken from WWII color film and from other WWII movies and spliced into the film
I guess 'Midway' could also very very loosely be considered as a sequel to 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo' (1944) because it uses its Doolittle Raid scene from that movie at the very beginning.
Even though the movie incorporates scenes from other films (some apparently from
Tora! Tora! Tora!) and you can tell the planes with the close ups of the pilots are fake, with the excellent acting all round by all the actors, it pulls it off, and the movie is still today, in my opinion, one of the great American movies about WWII; it is also one of the first American films that doesn't portray the Japanese as a bunch of brutes.
MIDWAY(1976) Original Theatrical Trailer - YouTube[/COLOR][/URL]
Someone made a compilation video of all the combat scenes from Midway on Youtube (***ALL SPOILERS*** but maybe worth seeing 1 minute to get a better idea how the movie was filmed / compiled if my description didn't make sense):
Midway-WW2 Dogfight and action scenes Part 1 of 2 - YouTube[/COLOR][/URL]
I also want to give a Big Thumbs Up for Marcel Oph