tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24200494.post6446534780673008025..comments2024-03-29T06:02:28.844-04:00Comments on Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: Audie Murphy wasn’t the Only Hero in His FamilyNicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12372393717833610657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24200494.post-80228043383055357932019-06-26T00:10:54.343-04:002019-06-26T00:10:54.343-04:00This month TCM has been running WW II movies on th...This month TCM has been running WW II movies on the Allies. On Thursday night, June 27, at 8 pm ET, TCM features To Hell and Back (1955). Audie Murphy plays himself as WW II's most decorated American soldier. This film is not shown on TV that often. <br /><br />Audie Murphy himself is supposed to have said "We missed by a mile," as the action is sanitized. Audie came to like the film when it became Universal's biggest moneymaker until Jaws 20 years later. <br /><br />Murphy probably should have had two (the other for the slaughter of the machine gunners after they kill his best friend) Medal of Honor awards. The action in the Colmar Pocket in January 1945 took place in freezing weather. In the movie it's a sunny day in the park. Also the tank destroyer was on fire and Audie was on it firing the MG much longer than in the movie. <br /><br />At 2:30 am ET early Thursday morning TCM shows PT 109 (1963), This is John F. Kennedy's WW II naval exploits, made and released while JFK was President. Cliff Robertson plays the young PT boat commander. Robertson was 39 when the film was made. Kennedy was 26 in 1943, I always thought Peter Fonda should have played the role. <br /><br />JFK (and his wife) supposedly wanted Warren Beatty, but JFK settled on Robertson to play him. Beatty wanted to play JFK as a pacifist. <br /><br />The supporting roles are largely Warner contract players, some TV actors. Robert Blake plays a crew member. <br /><br />In a way PT 109 shows how Americans saw themselves in 1963. David In TNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15749838323613927456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24200494.post-22927184638155043772018-04-16T17:56:48.042-04:002018-04-16T17:56:48.042-04:00Wanted to post that YOUTUBE has some footage of th...Wanted to post that YOUTUBE has some footage of the three nightly anchormen of 1971 reading the Audie Murphy plane crash--Cronkite,Reasoner and Frank McGee.About 30 seconds each.Seems a war hero such as Audie Murphy should have got more airtime than that.Interesting also,to see the style of the anchors,compared to today.<br />--GR AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com