SATURDAY MOVIE EPISODE 2: WAR

Two Aussie blokes (Tim Stackpool and Gary Jarjoura) discuss films they watched while at boarding school in the 1970s. In this episode: A BRIDGE TOO FAR An attack deep into German-occupied Holland began on Sunday, September 17 and lasted until September 25, when Allied forces surrendered and withdrew south across the Rhine River, abandoning the bridge they set out to destroy. KELLY'S HEROES A motley crew of American GIs go AWOL to rob a French bank, located behind German lines, of its stored Nazi gold bars. ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II This musical documentary film directed by Susan Winslow juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films. TORA TORA TORA The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbour, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.