Reviewing Movies

The Valour and the Horror (1992)

Brian and Terrence McKenna

Savage Christmas: Hong Kong 1941

Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

A mini series each 1hr 44 min

An account of the Canadian experience of WW#2. Reviled by the Royal Canadian Legion. Given written accounts I've read recently I find this version rather temperate in its portrayal. For much of the filming the background music is taken from Faure's Requiem with a snatch of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

In typical fashion generals and air marshals treat the man on the ground or in the plane in similar fashion as the chess player treats the pawns on his checker board; they are expendable. Indeed British generals had disdain for colonial troops.

And the incompetence of those in command of troops in the battle for Normandy gets highlighted here. Child soldiers on the German side pitted against a Black Watch Regiment committed to never retreating.