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Title: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Tom Hanks | ... | Captain Miller | |
| Tom Sizemore | ... | Sergeant Horvath | |
| Edward Burns | ... | Private Reiben | |
| Barry Pepper | ... | Private Jackson | |
| Adam Goldberg | ... | Private Mellish | |
| Vin Diesel | ... | Private Caparzo | |
| Giovanni Ribisi | ... | T-4 Medic Wade | |
| Jeremy Davies | ... | Corporal Upham | |
| Matt Damon | ... | Private Ryan | |
| Ted Danson | ... | Captain Hamill | |
| Paul Giamatti | ... | Sergeant Hill | |
| Dennis Farina | ... | Lieutenant Colonel Anderson | |
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Joerg Stadler | ... | Steamboat Willie |
| Max Martini | ... | Corporal Henderson (as Maximilian Martini) | |
| Dylan Bruno | ... | Toynbe | |
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother... Written by J.Zelman
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Very good film - the landing sequence at the start was phenomenal. The acting was of a uniformly high standard. A couple of things spoiled the film a bit for me.
The Germans are treated as 'Nazis', even when most Wermacht soldiers were just serving their country like everybody else. Also they seemed to be targets that got mown down in droves and were generally portrayed as less than human. I thought that went out in cinema a few years after the war ended.
Finally the only mention of the other allies is one disparaging comment about Montgomery's failure in front of Caen. Firstly he was facing most of the German armour that was dug into strongpoints, and secondly on D-Day and for a period after the British and Canadian troops out numbered the Americans. I wouldn't normally bother but Americans seem to view these films as historically accurate representations.
With the release of U571 this trend is getting even worse. The capture of the Enigma machine was carried out by a British destroyer crew - before America even entered the war!
The new Colditz movie is following this path. There were very few American POW's held there, and none of those escaped by the war's end.