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The Steel Lady (1953)
Sure I was a kid - but this movie rocked!
Like (most) of the others commenting here, I really loved this flick. We oughta form a fan club! Like some others, I saw it on TV back in the early 60s and it's stuck with me ever since. The guy with the 16mm print and all the other stuff is one lucky dude. I'm checking NetFlix continually for it-- but no go. I wonder if we all hit Turner or Movie Channel with e-mails if they could get it on the air again?? Anyways, I endorse all the comments (but for Mr. Lone Grumpy-Pants) that appear here so far.
What I'd like to know (being a bit of a WWII history buff) is just how accurate the tank they used was. So many war movies use USA tanks, etc., from the 50s made to 'look' like the German vehicles (TV's Combat and MOST Hollywood productions suffer for me because of that, with Spielberg's films being the significant exceptions). I saw this movie before I became a student of WWII hardware and so a tank was a tank.
But the pictures I still see in my mind now seem to be that the tank was either an authentic or very close mock-up of the Mk III or IV Panzers actually used by the German Afrika Korps. Anyone else recall? I'd love to see the film again just to find out that little tidbit.