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(If I posted this in the wrong, spot, please shift it for me)
I just started watching a movie tonight that I found on a compilation DVD of WWII Movies, and it is the absolute WORST WWII movie I have EVER seen! I could only stand 15:33 minutes before I had to switch it off. It is called "Heroes in He-ll"(my hyphenation)... Starring people I never heard of, it has an appearance by Klaus Kinski, and is an Italian war film... Sort of like a spaghetti western set in WWII. It is chock full of stock WWII combat footage, and some really dreadfully BAD acting, as well as very poor dubbing- I mean the accents have accents...lol... This one is 3AM 1970s Late-Late-LATE show on CBS bad... I mean the show they put on only so the could say they had programming at that hour, and never expected anyone to watch...
It starts with combat footage montage over Europe, and goes to the acting(I am being generous with the term) with two characters being dragged past some rather lackluster 'krauts' after being brought in in a WWII vintage 1/2(not 3/4) ton Dodge ambulance, marked as German, and with a Mercedes emblem glued to the radiator cap...One is wounded, and the drunken british camp doctor who had murdered his wife in a mercy killing has to operate to save him from a shoulder mounted shrapnel wound... After the operation, the scene shifts to two "airmen" gearing up and climbing into a T-6(or similar- hard to tell) which starts with the most interesting lack of radial startup whine- more like they switched the soundtrack on mid stroke...lol... And they take off, another montage of all sorts of aircraft- B-17s, P-47s, 38s, Spitfires, Tiffies, EVERYTHING! I think the theory is one airplane is good, a hundred is better...
I could take no more- from the overdosed stock footage montages, to the really poor uniforms(Gee- some off the POWs had cartridge belts on!), the bad acting and pathetic dubbing, I think this is one film requiring copious amounts of alcohol and possibly drugs, to be able to watch all the way through...
If you feel like suffering, or have a friend to torture, I recommend this disaster of the cinema: It can be found on a compilation available in the 2 for $11 bin at WalMart, "War Movies WWII Collection" of 4 DVDs and 20 movies. The plus side to buying this is "Aerial Gunner", "A Walk in the Sun", "Go For Broke", "Gung Ho", "Corregidor", "Minesweeper", "Bombs Over Burma" and a few other good WWII movies are on it.
Robbie
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