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Ogri (2000)
Ogri comes to life
The famous Bike Magazine strip comes to life. Need to see the film a number of times to see all the sub plot gags just like the original strip. Kickstart does steal the show for me
The Saint (2017)
Very Saintly
This film is in the tone of the original Leslie Charteris books of the 30's but brought up to date. Many of the characters of the books are there or mentioned. Patricia Holm, Rayt Marius, John Henry Fernack, Chief Inspector Claude Eustice Teal.
As a lifelong Saint fan I really enjoyed the film and sad that this wasn't made into a series as Adam Rayner is almost as Leslie Charteris describes The Saint in the books
Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018)
Very good programme and gives an insight into the SOE training
As a SOE living historian and a British Army veteran I found this series to be interesting and very informative. Frome the rat bomb to the unarmed combat it was following the SOE training manual. It is shame they couldn't have used the actual SOE Finishing School for the Finishing School and the Final Scheme but since that is now the National Motor Museum I suppose it would have caused too much disruption. I feel that it was left incomplete without the Parachute School
The War I Knew (2014)
Very slow film not the best Overlord film
I bought this film because it was cheap (£3 on DVD) and I am glad I didn't spend more. The story line has potential but was not used to its fullest potential at all. The British weapons were wrong. It looked like they used M1 Garrands (standard US issue) rather than the Short Magazine Lee Enfield Mk4 (SMLE) and I also very doubt that a private (craftsman) in the REME would have been issued with a Tommy Gun. He would have been issued with either a Sten or SMLE.
The acting was wooden and the obvious tension between Barrows and Murphy could have been made more of. The scene where the captured SS officer translates the French to the English for the squad is laughable. The actor playing Rock who is suffering from shell shock played that really well. I have seen shell shock and it does manifest itself in this way.
This film claims to be based on truth. If so then they need to apologise. They claim the Johnny Barrows won the VC. There is no record of anyone of that name winning a VC ever let alone in the Normandy Campaign (I have a book that lists every VC winner. In fact the only VC won by a member of the REME was in WW1 by a Lt Graham Lyall VC on 28th September 1918). I think it is sad and insulting for that claim to be made by the producers of the film that claims to be based on real events.