tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212867859094085036.post2282035040160491347..comments2024-03-27T10:44:12.502-04:00Comments on GREAT OLD MOVIES: STALAG 17Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053290865549099074noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212867859094085036.post-43883479953767782512017-01-13T10:53:53.453-05:002017-01-13T10:53:53.453-05:00I agree with your assessment of Holden. I, too, re...I agree with your assessment of Holden. I, too, resisted looking at war flicks when I was younger. Then my late partner wrote a book on "The Great War Films" and I watched all of them and contributed about half a dozen essays to the book. Still, like westerns, it'll will never be my favorite genre, but a good movie is a good movie. I enjoyed these movies more than I thought I would, although, of course, they can be awfully depressing. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03053290865549099074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212867859094085036.post-78284365349359626012017-01-13T05:17:00.260-05:002017-01-13T05:17:00.260-05:00I've never seen this one, as I used to have an...I've never seen this one, as I used to have an aversion to war pictures as a kid. (Not the case anymore; I am more open minded now.) But I love William Holden, and thought he should have won the Oscar for Sunset Boulevard with Wilder. (You are right, not a hell of a lot of range as an actor but very solid, the perfect protagonist of his time...and he was a wonderful character actor when he got older, like in Network.) <br />-Cangelman66https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com