WW I movie

[Barrett]

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I'm baaack. Been hunting in Zimbabwe the past couple of weeks and researching a couple of magazine articles. Things were blessedly unexciting, contrary to what the papers lead you to believe.
But I digress.
While crossing the Atlantic via SAA 747 I heard mention of a new WW I movie but nobody seemed to know any details. Any current info/rumor/innuendo along those lines? Evidently the much-awaited Luke movie continues to lurk.
The most recent flicks I've seen were "U-751" and "Gladiator." Both are definitely Guy Movies but interesting in their own way.

[Shooter]

Barrett:

Glad to have you back. Your name has been mentioned a few times in your absence, but all references were "positive."

As far as the flic about the First World War, I have "not a clue." Of course, in so many ways I would be the last to know.

In any case, welcome aboard, sir. I hope your hunt was eventful (did you bag a kudu while you were there? I hear that the Rhodesian kudu is usually more than a trophy class kill).

Shooter sends

[Barrett]

Shooter & Crew:

Thanks for the nice words--I gotta admit that I'm waaay too tired to look for any references to me during my absence! The Forum certainly has been busy in that time.
At risk of going off-topic, I'll say that I did indeed get a kudu--a precision shot at about 130 yds owing to tall grass. I saw one young bull leap a 7-foot barbed wire fence with effortless grace, as easily as a Whitetail Deer jumps a 3-rail wood fence.
The vehicle of my hunting buddy ended up trapped with both right wheels sunk in old elephant footprints. Jim said he didn't know that elephant have the same wheelbase as a Land Rover! There'd been heavy rain in the area, and the elephant had moved on, so we didn't get to catch any of 'em in the camera.
WW I content: I read Stevenson's 1980 novel "Ghosts of Africa" which is a highly fictionalized account of Gen. Paul von Lettow's brilliant East African campaign that tied down hundreds of thousands of Brit Commonwealth troops. An enjoyable book that made me even more curious about the real story.

try My Reminiscences of East Africa by Paul von
Lettow-Vorbeck recently reprinted by Battery Classics Tennessee.

andy

[Vigilant]

The Guardian ran a lead article in their pull-out section two Thursdays ago about Capt. James Bigglesworth, DSO, MC ("Biggles" to his fiends), in which they mentioned that a Hollywood movie on our hero was in the pipeline! If it's true let's hope (1) that they make a good job and (2) set it during the war, or shortly after. Sadly the article gave no details of the up-coming film, but just used it as a hook on which to hang a discussion of the Biggles books. And it didn't do a bad job either, for the Guardian.

Vigilant
aka Watt Tyler, R.O. 266 Sqdn.

[Vigilant]

PS - Good to see you back Barrett!

[PeterL]

Vig, I saw this too, Hugh Grant is to be cast as Biggles!! Unfortunately the subject is to be "Biggles Flies North" (What?? not "Biggles Flies Undone"??) rather than one of the WW1 stories we should all prefer. I suppose it could've been worse, they might have cast Jim Carey and had him steal an Enigma machine

Peter L

[Billy_Bishop]

Hi Barrett, Glad you made it out alive!!

VBR,

Al Lowe

[Barrett]

Al--thanks for the sentiment!
As for Hugh Grant--now that he's split from Liz Hurley, I hope that she does for Biggles what Ursula Andress did for Bruno Stachel in The Blue Max!!!

[mike_baram]

Hey, Barrett,
While I have a problem understanding the killing of animals for anything other than self-preservation, I'm glad you're back and that you enjoyed your trip.
Do you have any plans to take your shooting skills to the California freeway system?????? We can use you in the diamond lanes.
VBR,
Mike