Top War Movie Characters

18-09-2008 16:25

This week a new war movie comes to the big screen in the form of Tropic Thunder bringing together Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr and Ben Stiller.

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film.

But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad

Tropic Thunder may be a war movie spoof but some of cinema's greatest moments and characters have come from war movies.

Here at FemaleFirst we have looked back over years of military movies to find the best characters from this genre of film.

Capt Virgil Hilts - The Great Escape

The Great Escape is one of the most popular war movies of all time. Released in 1963 the film follows a group of Allied prisoners of war trying to escape from a German POW camp during the Second World War.

It brought together a well new group of actors but leading the cast was Steve McQueen as rebel Capt Hilts, a cool-mannered American loner, discovers a blind spot in the barbed wire between the two guard towers.