Hollywood Seldom Gets The War Right.

Rating: 2/10 (8 July 2005)

I did serve in World War 2 and was lucky enough not to have been injured or end up a a POW. When I first saw Stalag 17 I realized how stupid and inaccurate that story was when seeing an American POW paint an and armed German guard's face and the audience went into hysterics laughing at this. No prisoner anywhere be in a civilian or military prisoner would ever do that to an armed guard without expecting some dire consequences. This film, Harte's War falls into the same unrealistic genre though with far less humor than many others. (Hogan's Heroes and McHale's Navy still shows the alleged humor of that war and the stupidity of our enemies. Neither was true.) Few Americans have ever wondered why the Russians seem to have never made a humorous film of that war. I wonder why?