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Signed 'Saving Private Ryan' movie still & bullet

"The famous opening scenes of this great movie were filmed on Curracloe beach, Wexford in June 1997. My teenage-self and my film-enthusiast buddy got the train from Drogheda to Wexford with our bikes and cycled out to Curracloe to watch our hero Steven Spielberg direct this epic. We had been looking forward to it for months. Only issue was that we were a week too early and production hadn't started! Trying to be positive, we spent the week camped in the sand dunes waking up each morning in the youthful hope that it would start that day. It never started. We watched the production crew recreate Omaha Beach in France for the D-Day landings...but no filming. The production office felt sorry for us for taking the long unfruitful trek down, and arranged a signed Tom Hanks (Captain Miller in the movie) still photograph. You will also see a dud pellet in my pic used in the opening horrific scenes of the movie. Ireland has always been seen as a fantastic film location."

Submitted by: Ciaran McCabe