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Old 11-13-2009, 08:36 PM
 
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Hi! I'm new to this forum and the only reason I signed up was to get help with something that has been bothering me for a long time. Years ago, I was watching tv (channel surfing) and I came across a very old war movie that was in black and white. I stopped and checked it out. There was this really young guy playing what I guess was a lead role and they were fighting and they were in one of those ditches. What really got me is it sounded exactally like Mel Gibson!! and looked like him too!! Was it him? I have looked on the IMDB and there was no movie that he was in like that. Was it him or someone who looked and talked just like him. He looked to be a teenager.
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Old 11-13-2009, 09:05 PM
 
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Mel Gibson was in the famous Australian war movie Gallipoli - about WWI. Could that be what you saw? It came out in the early 80s.
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Old 11-14-2009, 12:36 AM
 
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I'll check that out and see. Thank you!!!
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Old 11-14-2009, 06:08 AM
 
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It does sound like Gallipoli--I loved that movie.

But, it is in color, not black and white.
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Old 11-14-2009, 06:16 AM
 
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It does sound like Gallipoli--I loved that movie.

But, it is in color, not black and white.
Shhhhh - I wasn't gonna mention that. People have false memories and it's easy to think of trench warfare as black and white instead of color. Shhhhhh - our secret!
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Old 11-14-2009, 06:31 AM
 
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Shhhhh - I wasn't gonna mention that. People have false memories and it's easy to think of trench warfare as black and white instead of color. Shhhhhh - our secret!
Ha!
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Old 11-14-2009, 07:46 AM
 
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There are a couple of other possibilities about the color. He could have been watching a black and white tv, it could have been a distant station with poor reception, and although it wasn't as common in the 1980s, in the 1970s when I worked at a tv station there were still 16mm prints that came into the station in black and white, even though the original film was in color and the station had converted to color.
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