[geeks] "Must See" movies.

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 3/27/02 2:01 AM, Andrew Weiss at ajwdsp at cloud9.net wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:
> 
>> Wild WWII film tangent: what was the movie that had David Bowie
>> playing a british officer in a japanese POW camp? (Was it any good?)

The film was "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085933

>> 
> There was also one on the true story of the Japanese cavalry detachment
> that got stranded somewhere and never knew the war was over until 1974.
> They repeatedly attacked a base over the years. (that was the true story
> and the movie is Hollywoodified details changed a bit from that)

That is full of bull. There were no 'lost' Japanese units into the 70's
There were several Japanese soldiers on an island in the Phillipines up
until ~1974/5. The last remaining Japanese soldier now owns a horse ranch in
Montana.

Mike N
WW2 amatuer historian