What have you been watching?

Watched Waterloo Road earlier, an excellent WW2 drama following a young John Mills as he goes AWOL to protect his wife from a Philandering draft dodger. Well worth watching.

 

Hi Col. No telling with Wally-World. I find a few great buys there every so often. As I also collect Westerns and such, I found a great one recently that was $4.44 called: The Professionals w/ Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Walter (Jack) Palance. Went there yesterday to see if they had any H's H but none were on the shelves. I was told they get another shipment of DvDs in on Thurs and Fri but did not tell me if these were included.

On DDDvD.com: That site has specials all the time and has more titles available than any other site I know of. Amazon.com is good too but, I like DDDvD.com better. Also, you get free shipping no matter if you order 1 movie or 100 movies.

On the presant order I have with them, this is the first time I have ordered anything that is so popular that it is on back order. No big deal though, I already know when it will be shipped.

On The Rat Patrol. The first time I ever saw any episodes of the show was when they were played for a short time on WGN-Chicago station about 14 years ago. I had never seen any before then. I'm not sure what to make of that show but I recall liking the episodes I watched. I think I saw around 8 episodes played before WGN quit showing it. I'm a fan of Chrostopher George and thought he was OK in the episodes I saw.

[ Still watching season 3 episodes of H's H.]

 

Sir John Mills is my absolute favorite star from the U.K. The only thing I have with him in it-for now is: The Colditz Story. I will be getting the Disney film he made (Swiss Family Robinson) and I am desperately awaiting for some Movie-Studio, Power-that-be, to release Dunkirk on DvD.

 

I remember the Rat Patrol but I have not seen it for years. During the opening scenes of each show they show two guys in a jeep vaught over a big sand dune at high speed but they always cut away before they hit the ground. I always wanted to see the landing of that jeep and how many days in intensive care the two guy spent in the hospitol. One was the driver and the other was standing and holding on to a .50 cal machine gun only.

It was a bit dumb as they blew up tanks with their jeeps and .50 cal machine gun.

 

That makes me think of Steve McQueen's big motorcycle jump in The Great Escape.
Another one I like concerning vehicles is Three Graves To Cairo where, in the very beginning of the movie, Humphrey Bogart wakes up inside an M3 Lee with everyone else dead and the tank driving itself aimlessly through the North African desert.

 

Hi Wil, I think you might be thinking of Humphrey Bogart in: Sahara. There were only 3 guys left in his crew. He himself, Dan Duryea (Tank Driver) and Bruce Bennett (Other crewman.) Also has a very young lloyd Bridges in it as the wounded British Soldier (who soon dies of his wounds after being strafed by) Luftwaffe Pilot: Kurt Krueger (who ) recently passed away. He is the other blond-haired Uboat officer in The Enemy Below.

 

C.,
I stand corrected. Can you jog my memory of Three Graves To Cairo? I'm so confused! Hey, isn't that a sweathog classic? Anyway, I recently watched a 1933? movie called Hell Below starring Robert Montgomery, that guy who played the Animal in Stalog 17 (can't remember his name but have seen him in many other b/w's) and the hilarious Jimmy Durante who was also in (Ithink...) a movie called Freaks?. If I know Durante is gonna be in a movie I'll try to watch it just to see him. He's a riot! The movie (Hell Below) is about, you guessed it, a submarine in WWI. It's got the usual love story crap in it but, Durante's antics are the best. Also, the special effects are very good for a movie that was made in the 30's.

 

Hi Wil, heh heh, that's what im here for ;-)) and no problemo. I wish I could help you on the Three Grave movie but, I have not seen it in I don't know how many years. Oh and The Animal's name is Robert Strauss. I always did like Strauss as well as Durante. Both were great. I never have been much of a Robert Montgomery fan but, I will admit he was great in They Were Expendable w/ the Duke and in Yellow Jack.

I seem to recall seeing the tailend of Hell Below? or somehting similar? Does Hell below have Walter Brennan in it as a Navy Chief? If not, then I have not seen it.

 

No, he isn't in it. It's got a real funny scene in it with Durante fighting a kangaroo in a boxing ring somewhere in London.

 

For you Brits........
Today's Final Jeopardy answer........
The last British monarch who was not the child of a monarch.
Who is?????

 

94 cloned Hitler's on the loose can only mean one thing, The boys from Brazil. It's been many moons since I last saw this film, are that ending is wicked with the dogs.

 

Saw: Decision Before Dawn, this morning. This is such a great film with: Richard Basehart (Lt. Rennick), Gary Merrill (The Colonel), Oskar-Werner (Happy), Hans-Christian Blech (Tiger), Hildegarde Neff, O.E. Hasse (Panzer Colonel), Wilfrid Seyfarth (Special SS Courier) and a young Klaus Kinski--as the whiney soldier.

 

Hitler's Sunken Treasure was on NOVA last night.....about heavy water production in occupied Norway.....

 

Ah yes, I have seen this too and also had interviews with at least one of the Heroes of Telemark. It was great to know thta some of those guys are still alive and also that theat barrell of Heavy Water was stilll intact for them to test it.

 

For the last few days, nothing but JOHN WAYNE movies. SOme examples of what I watched are: Stagecoach, El Dorado, Three Godfathers, They Were Expendable, The Quiet Man, Angel and the Badman, Hondo and The Alamo.

 

Turner Classic Movies?

 

I had always thought a good trivia question would be how many times has John Wayne and Matt Dillon been shot in all their years of movies and TV. Must be 30 or 40 rounds a piece !

 

I like John Wayne flicks but the one I saw last night was truly horrible........
"Island in the sky". Matt Dillon flew pilot in one of the rescue planes,btw.

This place has some oldies,I've ordered from them before.
http://www.deepdiscount.com/

 

Yessir. ;-)) Also, I think AMC is going to have a marathon of his movies for his 100th birthday celebration coming up in just over 28 hours ;-D

There are celebrations going on for his 100th, in his birthplace of Winterset, Iown, in Eager, Arizona, San Diego, Calif, San Bernadino, California, somewhere in Colorado, as well as in Cannes, France, Germany, Ireland, England, Australia and I forget where else. There will be a representative or a Duke family member as well as John Wayne's "stock actors" at every one of these celebrations.

 

Good trivia question, and i'm not sure of the answer but, I know he was shot twice in El Dorado. Once by a woman in the back because he had shot her younger brother (who was gut-shot and later killed himself)(the actor was Johnny Crawford who played Lucas McCain in The Rifleman) who tried to ambush him. Next he was hit by a stray pellet from Mississippi's sawed-off shotgun when they were in a Saloon trying to find one of three men who had tried to ambush them from an old Church. Mississippi btw, was played by a young James Caan--and did a good job at it.

Duke was shot in the leg by Sheriff gone bad: Hendricks in Rio Lobo (leg wound)

Duke was shot by ambush in a Saloon in The Shootist.

Duke as Sgt Stryker was shot in the back by a Japanese sniper in: The Sands of Iwo Jima.

As Hondo Lane in Hondo, he was stabbed in the chest by an Apache Indian while they were fighting for blood rights.

He was shot by a Cowboy in his waist, in: Red River.

In The Cowboys, he was shot several times (murdered) by: Bruce Dern. And did you know, that Bruce Dern is still hated today because he killed the Duke!

He was shot in several other movies but I would need to watch them all again to give a more accurate accounting of such ;-D

I think he died in 6 or 8 of his movies. Keith, a Gentleman from England, gathered together all that trivia-which is only found at www.dukewayne.com