{"id":49916,"date":"2015-03-22T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/movie-review-the-battle-of-the-bulge-1965.html"},"modified":"2015-05-10T14:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:28:01","slug":"movie-review-the-battle-of-the-bulge-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/movie-review-the-battle-of-the-bulge-1965.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;The Battle of the Bulge&quot; (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old favorite from a bygone era of war movies. It works much better, though, if you don&#39;t know anything about the battle in question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/battle-of-the-bulge'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wKVdLySUpkYIOJtHlaq0PCaf1-1CsWDtQf0TV0jb0IuZZsin1jJBq67-9OuhLNDYwTMihkWj_-inJbGrV-caG7FBuISpliQS5LYano_6dcppDRc-oeg3ss5O4gRQJPp3HYbkCx7sRlYX8gd9HmOc30bhXr5PG4ZGrR8TE4d1=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/battle-of-the-bulge'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of Battle of the Bulge (1965)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMy dad was a big time WWII movie fan. And I&#8217;m talking here the big doughty-Yanks vs evil-Axis types of films, the sort that started getting made during the war itself, and then faded out when Viet Nam made gung ho war films a bit declasse. &#8220;Battle of the Bulge&#8221; is one I grew up watching repeatedly, even if it was one of the last of the bunch, coming out in the mid-60s. It&#8217;s got a stellar cast, a big budget, some great personal conflicts and comme&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/eQjnHU6DR3D'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old favorite from a bygone era of war movies. It works much better, though, if you don&#39;t know anything about the battle in question. A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of Battle of the Bulge (1965) My dad was a big time WWII movie fan. And I&#8217;m talking here the big doughty-Yanks vs evil-Axis types of films, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/movie-review-the-battle-of-the-bulge-1965.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;The Battle of the Bulge&quot; (1965)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37617,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/movie-review-goldeneye-1995.html","url_meta":{"origin":49916,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Goldeneye&quot; (1995)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jun-13 10:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my favorite Bond films, which status is reconfirmed on a rewatch. 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