The actor Steven Spielberg would cast if he made 'Saving Private Ryan' in 1951

The actor Steven Spielberg would cast if he made 'Saving Private Ryan' in 1951

The entire point of Saving Private Ryan is that it couldn’t have been made in the 1950s or 1960s, or even the 1970s and 1980s, which was one of Steven Spielberg’s main creative driving forces. The filmmaker had been a World War II obsessive since childhood, with his father serving as a radio operator and communications officer during World War II, and he spent his formative years watching countless Hollywood movies about the conflict. When the t…