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Rating:  - Best Series - Combat!
This is one of the best series I've ever seen. The charactors are well cast and believable.
Rating: - Worth buying just to see, THE PILLBOX
This is an outstanding TV series and it got an outstanding DVD release. Your money is well spent just to see the episode, THE PILLBOX. It's great, as are the rest of the episodes as well.
Rating: - Combat.
One of the best WII series every made. A great value with over 4 hours on one dvd
Rating: - Going Back 43 Years
After looking at all 5 seasons, I concluded Season II was
the best. From this Part II, Barrage, The Pillbox, The Eyes
of the Hunter, Counter-Punch, Weep No More, Rescue, and
Command all made my personal top 50. 8 more from part I
made my top 50, have separate review for that.
Rating: - Who Cares What I think?
But here goes, anyway: My picks for best episodes of "COMBAT'S" 2nd season.
BRIDGE AT CHALONS -- Riveting performance by Lee Marvin. I'm not necessarily a fan of these ultra-macho guys, but he's so damn' POWERFUL in this show.
GLOW AGAINST THE SKY ---- Very intense and violent. Of course, had Billy Nelson been wounded this seriously, he would have been shipped home immediately, and never appeared in another "Combat".
THE WOUNDED DON"T CRY---- Very well done. Karl Boehm very sympathetic. The twists and turns near the end will keep you on the edge of your seat.
***Suprise "Hit" episode: "A SILENT CRY"-----typical set-up with
misanthropic soldier (Richard Anderson) whom Saunders gets stuck with. The guy is a braniac who was promoted to Sargeant due to his expertise in radio technology--but he's never been out on a mission. What's more, he's a pacificst/philosopher, who cannot reconcile his lofty ideals with those of men who KILL others in battle.
His undoing comes in a beautifully crafted scene, as he works on a radio in a cellar with a young French resistance fighter, who is also an idealistic dreamer. Amazingly subtle acting, direction, and dialogue. Of course, when things start getting dangerous, Anderson's idealism is tested in the heat of battle.
Predictable, but still a top-notch show (even though the big battle scene behind the furniture is kind of funny).
****THE BEST of the 2nd season: Vic Morrow's "THE GLORY AMONG MEN". Simply unbelievable that a film of this quality was shot in 5 days. Brilliant in every way, and marred only slightly by the somewhat contrived "OK, now everybody smile" business at the very end. But what a show!!
****WORST --- Rick Jason in "RESCUE". In the latter part of the episode, due to a rifle butt to the jaw, Jason walks around with a grimace that's part Karloff's "Haunted Strangler" and part Popeye. It's just nutty!
Also, watch out for "The Party", which should have been subtitled "Combat meets The Keystone Kops". And "What are the Bugles Blowin' For" which seems to drag on forever---unless this was the director's way of evoking the same sense of TEDIUM in the viewer that the squad feels throughout most of this episode.
THE END.
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