Movie Review: The Lost Battalion
This was the best WWI movie I have seen that I had never heard of previously, most likely because it was a made for TV movie. I highly recommend it.
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,79602,00.html
The Lost Battalion, DVD, 2001.
When word that a detachment from New York's own 77th Division had been surrounded by Germans in the Argonne Forest leaked out, a wily editor saw an opportunity to sell more papers and immediately dubbed the unit "The Lost Battalion." Over the next week, as the men held out in the face of overwhelming odds, the story of the "Lost Battalion" became the most widely reported episode of the war. It hardly mattered that the battalion wasn't a battalion at all and certainly wasn't lost. The group of some 500 men was made up of companies from two different battalions of the 154th Infantry Brigade, and headquarters knew the exact coordinates of the unit's location from the beginning of the siege. What did matter was that this group of determined men made a gallant stand reminiscent of the Alamo and Little Big Horn, and this one had a happier ending.
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,79602,00.html
The Lost Battalion, DVD, 2001.
When word that a detachment from New York's own 77th Division had been surrounded by Germans in the Argonne Forest leaked out, a wily editor saw an opportunity to sell more papers and immediately dubbed the unit "The Lost Battalion." Over the next week, as the men held out in the face of overwhelming odds, the story of the "Lost Battalion" became the most widely reported episode of the war. It hardly mattered that the battalion wasn't a battalion at all and certainly wasn't lost. The group of some 500 men was made up of companies from two different battalions of the 154th Infantry Brigade, and headquarters knew the exact coordinates of the unit's location from the beginning of the siege. What did matter was that this group of determined men made a gallant stand reminiscent of the Alamo and Little Big Horn, and this one had a happier ending.
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Probably the only good acting I have ever seen from Rick Schroeder.
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quote:Originally posted by HandgunHTR52
Probably the only good acting I have ever seen from Rick Schroeder.
Good flick.
Agreed. I'm not a Schroeder fan but he was good in this one.0 -
I was p*ssed off when they brought him in on the cast of "24". He may be a 2nd Ammendment friendly kind of actor but boy does he suck on camera. 0 -
Well done. You folks seen Rough Riders? 0
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