War Horse The Film

[Ray Rivers]

So... gave my wife chocolates for St. Valentines and though I protested it was too cold to got out, she "insisted" we go see the movie!  

A rather sentimental affair, especially if you love animals and specifically horses, which I quite enjoyed.

Predictably my wife cried through the whole move.  

Some excellent scenes I must admit. The "tommy's" going "over the top." Joey, the horse, dragging the Germany artillery into place. All very emotional.

The best scene, for me, was the splendid charge which results in Joey's capture by the Germans. Massed cavalry charging through a wheat field.     Splendid, really splendid. But of course, pointless (this is World War I) and as they drove through the German camp in the open I was waiting for the German machine guns and the carnage that would result. I was not disappointed.  

Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Not a really gritty World War I movie, but you get the point. This was a horrible affair for everyone, including animals.

Go see it.  

[Ignatieff]

I just read none of the horses sent from Britain to the western front made it back.

Yeah, most were taken prisoner and imprisoned in HPOW camps.  Some managed to get away over the wire, but sadly the tunnelling attempts came to nought on account of horses being crap tunnellers.  Sad really.

[Ray Rivers]

Hey, that was pretty funny... 

[Hammers]

Yeah, most were taken prisoner and imprisoned in HPOW camps.  Some managed to get away over the wire, but sadly the tunnelling attempts came to nought on account of horses being crap tunnellers.  Sad really.

"Horses being poor tunnellers", your talking out of your chocolate starfish!

Escape attempts from the HPOW stables at Döberitz:



The RHA escape attempt from Colditz Castle:



The Panic at the Glue Factory of Mainz Citadel

[Ray Rivers]

British monument to Animals at War... "they had no choice."

[Ignatieff]

British monument to Animals at War... "they had no choice."

It's on Park Lane.  They've got plenty of choice.  The Dorchester, The Hilton and - my favourite - The Metropolitan.....

[Ignatieff]

"Horses being poor tunnellers", your talking out of your chocolate starfish!

Escape attempts from the HPOW stables at Döberitz:



The RHA escape attempt from Colditz Castle:



The Panic at the Glue Factory of Mainz Citadel

Hammers!  I'd heard the rumours, but now pictorial evidence!!!!  Is there nothing that this forum does not know?!? 

The other thing I heard was a problem was converting the horseblankets into civilian clothing.  Do you have any evidence of that?

[Old Goat]

Got that the wrong way round, it was converting the Civilian clothes into horse blankets that caused problems.  The Pet passports were a bugger too.

Famously a film was made in the fifties, called 'The Wooden Bloke', a huge great wooden bloke the HPOW's would vault over while two horses dug a tunnel underneath, 'The Great Hayscape' was another one....

I'll get me coat.

[Hammers]

Hammers

Is the horse in the second picture the equine equivalent of Donald Pleasance who has ruined his eyes forging false papers?

No, that's a horse in a prison made cow outfit. They were rubbish, just like their attempt to whinny like a cow. Most of them were caught and sent back by German milk maids.

[Ignatieff]

Got that the wrong way round, it was converting the Civilian clothes into horse blankets that caused problems.  The Pet passports were a bugger too.

Famously a film was made in the fifties, called 'The Wooden Bloke', a huge great wooden bloke the HPOW's would vault over while two horses dug a tunnel underneath, 'The Great Hayscape' was another one....

I'll get me coat.

Brilliant

[Ignatieff]

No, that's a horse in a prison made cow outfit. They were rubbish, just like their attempt to whinny like a cow. Most of them were caught and sent back by German milk maids.

Brilliant

[Ignatieff]

it is a little known bit of history but back in the seventeenth century the Horse in the Iron Mask broke out of the Bastille. True!

Though it was obliged to allow a famous french philospher to go first.

It was a case of putting Descartes before the horse.

Brilliant

[moif]

I have seen this film 'War Horse'. It was not so bad, but I think geared towards a younger audience.

[oxiana]

If you get the opportunity to see the stage production of War Horse, do. The puppets are astounding. I was skeptical before I went, but you suspend your disbelief instantly.

[carlos marighela]

If you get the opportunity to see the stage production of War Horse, do. The puppets are astounding. I was skeptical before I went, but you suspend your disbelief instantly.

I suddenly have the visions of 'The Muppets Take the Hindenburg Line' or the battle of the Somme as a Punch and Judy Show flashing before me.