Comments on: “Then out spake brave Horatius…” A Review of “Darkest Hour” http://localhost:8080/film-review-gary-oldman-darkest-hour Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Richard Munro http://localhost:8080/film-review-gary-oldman-darkest-hour#comment-34213 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 07:28:27 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6555#comment-34213 I have just re-read this. What bothered me about DUNKIRK (my son and I called it the SILENT MOVIE) was 1) the almost total lack of bad guys (Germans) 2) and the almost total lack of dialogue. I saw one of the unarmed escaping soldiers with an ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDER patch. Great except the 51st Highland Division was fighting desperately on the perimeter fighting until the last. Every last man was killed, captured or wounded EXCEPT two Highlanders who escaped pretending to be Irish Fishermen blown off course. They were captured by the Gestapo (in civilian clothes!) but only spoke Gaelic to each other. An Irish counsel confirmed they were Gaels and the two men were flown to Switzerland. THAT is better story than the boring one told in Dunkirk. I saw it three times. I couldn’t believe how disappointed I was. 1917 by contrast was on the mark. Plenty of bad Germans.

]]> By: Richard Langworth http://localhost:8080/film-review-gary-oldman-darkest-hour#comment-18254 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:45:59 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6555#comment-18254 In reply to James Gibbs MD.

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]]> By: James Gibbs MD http://localhost:8080/film-review-gary-oldman-darkest-hour#comment-18252 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:20:33 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6555#comment-18252 Wonderful.Thank you.May I join your mailing list?

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