Movie/TV Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/movie-tv/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:01:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 New D-Day movie: Pressure https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/new-d-day-movie-pressure/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/new-d-day-movie-pressure/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:56:27 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10353 The word is, Australian filmmaker Anthony Maras is working on a new WW2 movie titled Pressure, which focuses on the go/no-go decision that Gen Eisenhower had to make on the eve of D-Day and the role that meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg played in that famous decision. Brendan Fraser is reported to be cast as […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/new-d-day-movie-pressure/feed/ 10 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang commemoration reunion https://mechtraveller.com/2023/05/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-commemoration-reunion/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/05/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-commemoration-reunion/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 13:33:38 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8948 In the 55th anniversary year of the much-loved film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, two of the vehicles that starred in the film are due to return to one of the filming locations as part of a commemoration service for Sally Ann Howes, who played Truly Scrumptious. On Sunday 21st May 2023, both a reconstruction Chitty […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2023/05/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-commemoration-reunion/feed/ 0 The Last Hill – Possible Material for a Movie? https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-last-hill-possible-material-for-a-movie/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-last-hill-possible-material-for-a-movie/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:42:53 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8680 The Last Hill is a new book by Robert Drury and Tom Clavin about a little-known fierce battle fought in December 1944 to capture a strategic hill in the Hürtgen Forest on Germany’s border. The 400 metre (1,315ft) steep-sided ‘Hill 400‘ lies 5 kilometres inside the German border with Belgium. The US 1st Army had […]

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