Never seen that one either

I'm just gonna have to watch it since everybody seems to like it.

Also, what's so special about that particular B-17???

I've heard of it before and i've seen small models of the 'Memphis Belle', and it's the most well-known B-17, but why that one? There were a lot of other bomber crews

I'll just drop by and give my cent and a half on the flicks I've seen (mostly modern):

Good:
1)Saving Private Ryan
2)Black Hawk Down
3)We Were Soldiers

Iffy:
Tora Tora Tora!
Patton
Platoon
Behind Enemy Lines
Pearl Harbor

Bad:
Hart's War
The Thin Red Line
Windtalkers

The movies in the good are there because they're what I think'd be realistic.  Iffies had pottential, but were either ruined or didn't have enough bloodletting.  Pearl Harbor bombed.  And I don't mean into the pickle barrel either.  Not to mention all the errors in it I found.  Patton was a nice watch, and I actually learned something, but, not enough war.  I did like those Ju. 88's that kept pissin' him off though! Tora x3's actual Pearl Harbor scene was too short.  Although I did appreciate the real aircraft sacrificed for the movie.  Platoon was okay, but I find Vietnam boring.  You couldn't really take Behind Enemy Lines seriously, but it was still a fun watch.
Now, these bad movies, they piss me off, I mean big time.  Hart's War sucked so, friggin' bad.  It was more a court movie than war.  There was about an alloted 12 minutes of war.  All of which was entirely unrealistic.  The Thin Red Line had too much symbolism in it.  Last I checked, I was watchin' a war movie, not readin' Robert Frost.  Windtalkers is the worst.  I believe with firm conviction that Windtalkers was just a movie thrown out by Hollywood after September 11th just to get the patriotism up.  It worked the first couple movies, but by Windtalkers' time, the effect had long since worn off.  To the actual movie, let me ask you, what soldier starts crackin' jokes in a bloodfest against the Japs?  None, that's who.  The music in the battle scenes totally did not work also.  Pearl Harbor pulled it off, but that's because it was aerial, and composed by Hanz Zimmer.

Hey, look what I found folks. This should revive those flagging memories.
http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm

Here's what it says about The War Lover which I mentioned earlier.

The War Lover
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USAAF- Steve McQueen; 8th AF B-17's. Rivalry between "normal" co-pilot and macho pilot who loves combat. A lot of moody black and white footage of Forts.

Filmed in England with with 3 B-17G's: 2 PB-1W's, both scrapped after filming, and a CB-17G/VB-17G (now N9563Z Fuddy Duddy). Shot at ex-RAF Bovingdon. TB-25J Mitchell camera ship from Aero Assoc (44-30861).

The studio B-17 fuselage had actually been one of the 3 famous Isreali B-17's, bought after being broken up in Isreal.

One of the parajumpers drowned during filming. John Crewdson flew the terrific B-17 beatup at Bovingdon.

RAF Manston was used as well. They slso used stock footage from "Memphis Belle" and and "12 O'Clock High". Watch for the Spitfire attacking the B-17 in several scenes!

I found the site while searching for Crewdson Aviation Services, the company my friend worked for. It was based at Gatwick in the old days & handled most film aviation consultancy work in the UK at that time. Mention of that low flying sequence reminds me of a well-known pic published in the aviation press. Wish I had it now. It was taken from the control tower balcony while Captain Crewdson was rehearsing it. The camera was actually looking down on the B-17. Some witnesses swore he was only 10 feet above the field.

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Thanks, Hagar.  It amazes me how you come up with these sites.  This will be a good one for checking out the aircraft in a movie before watching it, so we'll know what to look for.  Or for trying to figure it out after viewing.

For example, I saw Flying Tigers a few years ago and was surprised to see a plane with three vertical tail fins and two (or 3 ?)horizontal tail planes.  At the time I thought maybe it was a fanciful model, and I've never seen anything like it before or since.  I was thinking it was a passenger plane.  I wonder if it could have been the bomber mentioned below:

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the best one is the Hunt for Red October

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I think the book was better also. I read it before I saw the film. The film was a bit drawn out. 

I've been busy the last couple of days so haven't been online since Friday (Sydney time). Much discussion has gone on in many forums in which I participate.

One film I want to mention on this one I, unforunately, don't recall the full name. It's not unlike the one that Hagar was describing earlier. More of a love story than a war film, but still some good action sequences.
It's a Pommy film made in the '80's, I think, called "something Street". Stars Harrison Ford and Christopher Plumber. Ford falls for Plumbers wife and the two men end up going on a secret mission together.
I liked the film. Does anyone recall the full name. 

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Thanks for the photo, Hagar!  You're a living monument to aviation!  Now I have proof that the thing existed.  Previously, no one I described it to really thought I knew what I was talking about.  They just humored me and suggested aircraft with one tail plane .

You've finally won me over to the Google Toolbar.  I'm determined to get one and try it.

BTW, I just ran across a photo of a Junkers G 38 (in Jane's Encyc. of Aviation), which also has two tail planes and three vertical fins, but is quite different otherwise of course.  It was also rare, only two were built.  It's an unusual plane with two passenger cabins in the wing roots.  The first one flew in 1929 and crashed in 1936.  The second was destroyed in an RAF raid in 1940.

Oops, I've strayed away from movies.  Sorry, Brensic, we Tanks can be pretty incorrigible at times.  Sometimes Pommies as well .  (J/K)