Today we are going via dead men's gulch but avoiding lovers lane as that is no longer something for my more sensitive readers.
I tend to retire to my master bedroom earlier than ever these days at night to watch a couple of DVDs under my luxury Egyptian cotton sheets and as winter hits my 25-year-old duvet. Very sadly the generation who were adults in the Second World War are now far and few between but this film shows what these often teenage soldiers endured.
In the late 1990s, after Private Ryan was wrapped, several of these rifles ended up at a prop store at Elstree Studios run by my friend Nick Harrison, who tragically died soon afterwards at such an early age from cancer.
Not even close
Hurt locker was terrible. I would change that with platoon.
Strong top five contender with Apocalypse Now, the Thin Red Line, the Hurt Locker, Dambusters, Full Metal Jacket and From Here to Eternity.