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  • I will reveal the film's title for 398 tomorrow if an answer isn't forthcoming by then..

    A final couple of clues are a major real life player in World War 11 and filmed during the war.,
  • As the answer for 398 certainly appears will not be forthcoming, I will now reveal the answer to be Five Graves To Cairo, directed by Billy Wilder and  released in 1943. Erich Von Stroheim played the role of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.



     
  •  399 400
    At least one of the above images shouldn't present a problem in identifying. 




  • edited September 2024
    Both films are British made productions from the 1940s.                                                                         
  • Another bonus clue for 399 is a big Hollywood star can be seen in the displayed image.

    Also another bonus clue for 400 is A very popular British film when first released in Britain but little remembered today.
  • 399 is The Way Ahead. The Scene depicts David Niven pushing an armored vehicle overboard, after his troopship is torpedoed. 
  • 399 is The Way Ahead. The Scene depicts David Niven pushing an armored vehicle overboard, after his troopship is torpedoed. 
    Correct. The Way Ahead from 1944.


  • A final clue for 400 is made by a production company best remembered for their many classic comedies.
  • WilWil
    edited September 2024
    HONDO said:
    A final clue for 400 is made by a production company best remembered for their many classic comedies.
    I'm assuming you mean Ealing Lawrence? So possibly Convoy (1940)?

    Your photograph, although using a British Vickers machine gun, looks like German sailors engauging a sea launched observation biplane. So worth a shot.
  • HONDO said:
    A final clue for 400 is made by a production company best remembered for their many classic comedies.
    I'm assuming you mean Ealing Lawrence? So possibly Convoy (1940)?

    Your photograph, although using a British Vickers machine gun, looks like German sailors engauging a sea launched observation biplane. So worth a shot.
    Correct. Full marks for working this one out Wil.  You are correct in thinking it is a German ship under siege by a British plane. The two aeroplanes depicted on the two following  posters do not appear to have appeared in the film at all.. You can watch this film on You tube. Convoy is an Ealing film.

     
  • I reckon we change this to "Let's try to stump Wil on war movies". :D
  •  401` 402
    The latest two film images to be solved.





  • 2 versions of same title, decades apart.
  • Dunkirk, based of that clue 🙂
  • jayn_j said:
    2 versions of same title, decades apart.
    Dunkirk, based of that clue 🙂
    Good work from both Jay and Ves.

    401 is indeed Dunkirk from 2017 and 402 is the original 1958 version. 

     
     
  • I immediately recognized 401 and did search on the title for the other.
  • The John Mills version was by far the best. For starters it didn't have a Spitfire gliding around the beaches of Dunkirk without fuel shooting down Stukas!
  •  403 404
    A couple of undisputed classic films this time around to be answered.
  • 404. I won't give the title away, however, I've got a feeling that Donald Pleasence is about to have a bad day. 
  • I agree that both are absolute classics.  Will hold back for others.
  • 404 is definitely a GREAT movie!




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  • 404 Great Escape.
  • Rick said:
    404 Great Escape.
    Correct. Nice for someone to actually reveal the answer for a film everyone seemed to know, but held back in answering. The Great Escape from 1963.

     

    An interesting fact is Donald Pleasance was actually a prisoner of war during World War 11.

    In 1944 while operating as  a wireless operator his plane was shot down in France. He was captured by the Germans and impounded in a German prisoner of war camp.
  • 403 is Stalig 17.  Kind of a misleading image for the dark comedy.
  • jayn_j said:
    403 is Stalig 17.  Kind of a misleading image for the dark comedy.
    Correct. Stalag 17 from 1953. Most other images i looked at were far too abvious.



  • WilWil
    edited September 2024
    An interesting fact is Donald Pleasance was actually a prisoner of war during World War 11.

    In 1944 while operating as  a wireless operator his plane was shot down in France. He was captured by the Germans and impounded in a German prisoner of war camp.
    Another fact recently discovered is that Peter Butterworth, star of many Carry On films, was involved in the real Great Escape and the escape featured in the earlier film, The Wooden Horse.

    Funnily enough he auditioned for a role in The Wooden Horse, but was turned down for not looking sufficiently like a prisoner.



    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68209738
  • An interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
  • edited September 2024
     405
     406
    The latest images for you to have a think about.
  • I see a common theme. Those Brits were great at escaping from camps and Castles :) 
  • I see a common theme. Those Brits were great at escaping from camps and Castles :) 
    Wil has certainly pointed you in the right direction to help solve these two images.
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