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03-10-09 04:13 AM #1Senior Member Country:
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(I apologize if this topic has already been done) What are your favorite films about tough-as-nails military drill sergeants trying to whip raw recruits into shape?
A few of mine (sorry, don't really know any British ones):
"Full Metal Jacket" (the first half on Paris Island with R. Lee Ermey is terrific)
"An Officer and a Gentleman" (Louis Gossett Jr is great in this)
"The D.I." (Jack Webb's commanding performance saves an otherwise forgettable film)
"Tribes" (excellent tv movie set in the Vietnam era about the clash of cultures between Darren McGavin's marine sergeant and a hippie recruit played by young Jan Michael Vincent)
"Stripes" (Bill Murray's nemesis Sgt. Hulka is played by Warren Oates, one of my favorite character actors)
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03-10-09 06:36 AM #2Senior Member Country:
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03-10-09 07:42 AM #3Administrator Country:
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Bill Owen (Compo from Last of the Summer Wine) as the sergeant instructing SOE recruits in Carve Her Name with Pride
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03-10-09 08:12 AM #4Senior Member
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Ian Hendry, for definite, in The Hill. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJJ-h-r420]YouTube - The Hill (1965) - 03[/ame]
It's a double clicker
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03-10-09 08:35 AM #5Super Moderator Country:
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The Gentle Sex has some square bashing for the ATS recruits. Lovely scene of Joan Greenwood marching off in completely the wrong direction.
The end of Dunkirk has John Mills and Robert Urquhart getting an earful from Patrick Allen.
Not exactly square bashing, but there's an interesting scene of military bullying in the Werner Herzog film Woyzeck.
Parade duty features in Beau Geste, too.
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03-10-09 08:54 AM #6Senior Member Country:
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Rod Steiger's repressed homosexual drill sergeant in The Sergeant.
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03-10-09 09:49 PM #7Senior Member Country:
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How about Bill Bendix in Idol on Parade with Anthony Newley.
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03-10-09 10:34 PM #8Super Moderator Country:
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Beau Chumps.
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03-10-09 10:34 PM #9Senior Member Country:
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Not really a drill sergeant but Robert Redford in The Last Castle.
Absolutely brilliant movie.
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03-10-09 10:39 PM #10Senior Member Country:
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William Hartnell in Private's Progress.
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03-10-09 10:41 PM #11Super Moderator Country:
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Privates on Parade
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03-10-09 10:44 PM #12Senior Member Country:
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name='batman']Privates on Parade
Michael Elphick's gun-runner.
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03-10-09 10:48 PM #13Super Moderator Country:
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name='DB7']Michael Elphick's gun-runner.
That's the one .... he was a nasty man.
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The Pythons in Now For Something Completely Different
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04-10-09 02:53 AM #15Senior Member Country:
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Nat Pendelton's drill sergeant in Buck Privates.
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04-10-09 06:39 AM #16Senior Member Country:
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Robert Strauss as Sergeant McClusky in 'Jumping Jacks' (1950) starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Dave.
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04-10-09 10:26 AM #17
RSM Sandy Young from The Wild Geese, 1978. He gets some wonderfully nasty lines.
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04-10-09 10:55 AM #18Senior Member Country:
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James Whitmore in Battleground.
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04-10-09 07:32 PM #19Super Moderator Country:
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name='Neil1889']RSM Sandy Young from The Wild Geese, 1978. He gets some wonderfully nasty lines.
Forgot about him. Great performance from Jack Watson ... he was superb!
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04-10-09 08:55 PM #20name='batman']Forgot about him. Great performance from Jack Watson ... he was superb!
It's an odd film. It doesn't always hang well together, but I can't take my eyes off it when its on.
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