Thunderbolt
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Movie Reviews of Thunderbolt
Movie Review: GIFT FOR SOMEONE ELSE
Summary: 5 Stars
Item was purchased as a seasonal gift for a relative culled from their Wish List. I'm assuming it's great.Movie Review: THE BEST WWII documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
Thunderbolt is the best WWII documentary I'v ever seen.
Zvi Davidick is an IDIOT
Movie Review: Thunderbolt - WW II Documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a William Wyler and John Sturges co-directed documentary filmed on Corsica and using actual World War II combat film footage from over Italy. The combat footage is from cameras mounted on various P-47 Thunderbolts that took part in the operations described. We not only see the actual combat footage filmed from the P-47 cameras but get a view of the life of the pilot and their crew when at the airfield.
The commanding general, General Carl Spotz, does the narration and does an excellent job in explaining what is not only obvious but the thoughts that most of the pilots had at the time of a particular portion of the mission you are viewing. His narration does not convey the stress and boredom that waiting for actual combat entails. Though alluded to in earlier deployments in passing and the emphasis that what we are seeing is considered a resort to the pilots after the North African Campaign.
The film though obviously edited for the American public and does explaining and show how what a pilot sees from the air is the countryside and not the ramifications of the war on the people involved on the ground. This short documentary for the low price is well worth getting though it would have been even better if released in wide screen.
Movie Review: Good show about a great fighter plane in World War II
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD has been taken from a early-forties era documentary film made with Stateside audiences in mind. It was probably shown in theaters before the main shows during the war years. One of the big pluses is that the film is in color, and that the color is strikingly good for a combat film. Directed by Academy Award winner William Wyler (best known for 'Ben-Hur' and the original documentary of 'The Memphis Belle'), the film depicts life--and death--in a P-47 Thunderbolt squadron based in Italy. It gives the viewer a good look at Italy, not just the base itself. The strafing runs are excellent, taken by a camera mounted in the planes on actual missions. For a wartime propaganda film, it is quite honest and deals with the suffering of noncombatants, showing bombed-out buildings, children playing near a burned corpse, and haggard, war-weary men and women. The aerial footage is excellent, the dialogue is good, and the quality of the picture is also good. The film also shows the tragic results of a Thunderbolt crash quite graphically, as if to remind the viewer that war is a dangerous game and that there is never any guarantee that the pilots will return from their missions. This color film runs around 45 minutes. It is well worth the price.Movie Review: The "other" Classic WW2 Documentary in Color
Summary: 4 Stars
Along with "Memphis Belle" this fine film stands up there with the best documentary features of the era. Using wartime film equipment, (no fancy Hollywood gear!) William Wyler (Ben-Hur) did his part for the war effort, with style and class (and a little humor!). A combination of propaganda and straight up honest filmmaking, 'Thunderbolt' is a film worth buying. Shot on 16mm Kodachrome, You wont see ultrafine images or glorious sound. The color and contrast are sometimes harsh. But this was War, and filmmaking in a combat zone isn't easy, under harsh conditions Wyler's film survived to become the true classic it is today.
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