From: twoodburn (twoodburn@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 13:50:17 PDT
I believe that piece is in the Littlefield collection now and I think I
may have a picture.
Tom
> Yes, I remember that half track very well in The Dirty Dozen. Lee Marvin
> and the others running around in that half track produced some great shots
> of it in action. As I recall there is a collector on Cape Cod in Mass who
> has one that he used to bring to parades and re-enactments. I believe it
> is a Czech OT810 however,and not an original Sd.Kfz. Quite a machine.
> Glenn
> MVPA
> MTANJ
>
> The Alamo wrote:
>>
>> Jun 20 2006
>>
>> Greg,
>> Following my posting of yesterday, as I have promised, I have checked my
>> books (I did not remember that I have two more ones in English!): the
>> movie is PLAY DIRTY - 1969, as also suggested by another Lister
>> yesterday.
>>
>> It has been a pleasure to go through my books looking for your movie.
>> There were a lot of war movies which I did not remember of... and many I
>> have not seen because have been considered less important or marginal by
>> our TV Stations.
>> The only fault of "Play Dirty" are the U.S. half-tracks disguised as
>> German Sd.Kfz. half-tracks. However, this is a minor fault because at
>> the time all German half-tracks used in war movies were U.S. ones. In
>> 1969 there were VERY VERY few mil-veh collectors owning running German
>> WWII half-tracks. The only original one used in a movie I remember of is
>> an German Sd.Kfz. half-track used at the end of DIRTY DOZEN. It seems
>> that it was recovered in a British farm. Anybody does remember it?
>> Regards and
>> Keep Them Rolling!
>>
>> Raimondo
>> 1943 GPW Jeep
>>
>> At 08.33 17/06/2006, GREG wrote:
>>> OK, MV movie gurus - need some help out with this one.
>>> I'm trying to find the title of this movie (or maybe it was a TV
>>> movie?), but the only thing that some friends and I can remember from
>>> it
>>> is one scene where trucks are being winched up a cliff. Location was
>>> probably supposed to be North Africa, time more than likely was
>>> supposed
>>> to be WW2. Movie was in color, if that helps. [...]
>>> I'm trying to find the title of this movie (or maybe it was a TV
>>> movie?),
>>> but the only thing that some friends and I can remember from it is one
>>> scene
>>> where trucks are being winched up a cliff. Location was probably
>>> supposed to
>>> be North Africa, time more than likely was supposed to be WW2. Movie
>>> was in
>>> color, if that helps.
>>>
>>> Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>>>
>>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
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