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War Games is highly entertaining, fast-moving, colorful, and mentally stimulating". [24] Colin Greenland in Imagine stated that "Wargames is a tense, tight film, sharply acted, funny, sane, and with a plot twist for every chilling sub-routine in WOPR's scenarios for World War III". [25]
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The Last Valley is a 1971 film written and directed by James Clavell, an historical drama set during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). While war ravages in the southern principalities of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, a mercenary leader (Michael Caine) and a teacher (Omar Sharif) stumble upon a valley untouched by the war.
Seminole (1953), Rock Hudson stars as an American officer who must battle his former friend, the Seminole war chief, Osceola, played by Anthony Quinn. 7th Cavalry (1953) The Battle of Rogue River (1954) Apache (1954) The Indian Fighter (1955) Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955), Creek War; The Last Frontier (1955) A Distant Trumpet ...
Geschwader Fledermaus (Bat Squadron) (1957); Cerný prapor (The Black Battalion/Das schwarze Bataillon/Bataillon des Teufels) (1958); Kommando 52 (Commando 52) (1965); Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man – Confessions of a Killer) (1966)
Warner looked to his studio's contracted actors and chose thirty-year-old Korean War veteran James Garner, already slated to appear in a featured part. He had the proper appearance and age to play Darby, who was killed in battle at age thirty-four. It was his first leading film role. His place in the film was taken by Stuart Whitman. [9 ...
Thirty Years War, subtitled "Four Battles", is a "quadrigame" — four separate board wargames packaged in one box that use a common set of rules — published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976. The four games simulate different battles during the Thirty Years' War, and were sold individually as well as in the quadrigame format ...
The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. Fought primarily in Central Europe , an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [ 19 ]