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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Royal Navy used up all the flower names for their corvettes. There was even an HMS Pansy and an HMS Bluebell. I believe the producers of the film were a little hard pressed to find an appropriate name for the ship and lucked into 'Compass Rose'...a flower that wasn't a flower! The RCN...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Next to 84 Charlie Mopic I always considered Go Tell The Spartans one of the better films about Vietnam. It's devoid of the jingoism and preaching that most films about the war seem to have. Burt Lancaster shows, yet again, what a fine quality actor he was.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A wonderfully understated ending with a truly appropriate final line: "Finished with main engine".
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Cruel Sea (1953). A film like this puts today's action movies to shame.
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    The Cruel Sea (1953): An excellent film produced from an excellent book. Definitely deserves more attention that it receives.
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    One of my favourites.
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Absolutely...Paths Of Glory is often considered one of the finest anti-war films made. Go Tell The Spartans is an interesting choice as well. Not sure if it reaches the 'masterpiece' level but it certainly was an excellent film and it is certainly unappreciated. Good choice, WH1.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    'The Trench' with Daniel Craig. A well-done film on a much ignored subject.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Vikings has become one of my very, very few regular shows and you're quite right about this season. The writing was decent in season one but this season it has become excellent. The acting is consistently good. The contrast in 'Blood Eagle' between the English wedding and the Viking wedding...
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    What Are You Reading

    They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children by Romeo Dallaire (Lt. Gen. ret'd). Describes the author's campaign against the use of child soldiers. Very disturbing and well worth reading.
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    WWI - The war in the air

    I know I mentioned the 'Bandy Papers' series in another thread, but when you do get around to those books, the third volume (It's Me Again) has Bandy leading a squadron of Dolphins.
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    WWI - The war in the air

    After the war, Canada received 22 Fokker DVII's as 'war prizes'. A number of these went to equip the fledgling Canadian air force. There's only one survivor now, I believe (at least in Canada). It's sitting in a small county museum in the town of Knowlton, Quebec, south of Montreal. A few...
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    Show us your scarves ...

    Thanks, esteban. The label on the Sammy is the same as your reversible tan one. Sixties? I was glad to find a Sammy in rayon rather than the rather stiff, shiny 'tricel' fabric that they used later.
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    Show us your scarves ...

    After a long drought I finally found two new/old scarves today. The first one came from a house contents sale. There's no label but it's that nice old heavy rayon. And I found this Sammy at a thrift store later on. It's reversible...red on the reverse. Sixties vintage perhaps?
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    And in a Salvation Army store nearby, we found a lovely Suzy Cooper teapot.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Went to a thrift store in a nearby city. Another great book find. The thrift stores have been kind to me this week.
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Seven Days in May (1964). Tough to beat a film with both Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
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    Spring is almost here...

    The ice is the worst. We had a nasty ice storm at Christmas. I had 5 days with no power, no land line, no cell service, no heat, no car (thanks to a large tree limb) and temperatures that went down to -14C. I ended up shutting off the water and draining the pipes to prevent freezing. We...
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    Spring is almost here...

    Sounds like you got hit worse than we did. We had about 15 cm of snow (6-7 inches) and the temperature this morning was -18C but by today the plows had done their job and the streets were clear. It'll start melting tomorrow...at least of a couple of days!
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    Overly appreciated movies?

    I have to agree with you Two Types. Saving Private Ryan is a decent film but it’s not a masterpiece. Once the opening sequence is finished, the film becomes a pretty standard issue war movie. Actually it could almost be an episode of the 1960’s Vic Morrow vehicle, Combat. (I liked Combat...

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