WW II Moveis

Ron

I'm glad that my Ethen Allen furniture is over twenty years old.

I happened to be in one of their stores yesterday and I see what you mean. Quality certainly has dropped. :-(

Tom

Warfare in any day, week, month, year or century is ALWAYS brutish.

I need more drink! Is Operation Petticoat the very same one where wassisname..."I know, let's put on a show in our back garden, do tap dancing and sing for money" gets lost on an island then wanders around in the bush with very thick glasses and gets the Japanese to follow him whilst shouting something that sounds like "hai tanasoi" ?

Kill me now!

Let's also not forget "Morphies Wor"

Richard.

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Air Force? Not terribly accurate, more propaganda than anything. I liked the little dog that barked when you said Tojo.

Yup, and one of the pilots later played Lt. Rip Masters on "Rin Tin Tin" (James Brown).

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Operation Petticoat involved an American sub evacuating the Philipines and picking up a crew of nurses and a pink paintjob along the way to Australia. One of Dad's favourites. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I'll bet the prices haven't.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I have Airforce on tape. Corny but a good film. I love the way that only a week after Pearl Harbor there were enough B17s in the Pacific to sink a Japanese taskforce heading towards Australia.

p.s. Moto not Tojo

"Can't sing. Can't act. Can dance a little." - Comment from talent scout's notes written during Fred Astaire's first screen test.

"To be or not to b....who wrote this shit anyway ?"

One of John Wayne's first screen tests.

Richard.

The concept of somebody contemplating their own end probably didn't sit well with him. Otherwise I bet quite a few 'students' say the same thing. :(

Bill Banaszak, MFE

The thought of The Duke reading lines from the works of The Bard strikes me as utterly hilarious!

Yeah, I was uninspired by the silliness of the storyline. But, for just plain action it was ok (not enough for me to buy it though).

Wasn't the pink paint a primer they applied then were called to urgent duty before they could apply a topcoat?

Tom

Philipines

Yep. They had red primer and grey primer, but not enough of either to do the entire job. So the chief mixed the two together resulting in the Pepto palor.

Cute movie, still one of my favorites. Anyone else ever notice Marion Ross, Ms. C from "Happy Days", as one of the gals on the Sea Tiger?

WmB

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All they had was red lead and some white paint. The result, of course, was the pink.

Andy