On May 15, 11:26 am, "Dudley Henriques" wrote:
"Luke Skywalker" wrote in message

oups.com...





On May 15, 9:22 am, "Dudley Henriques" wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message

...

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...

You have to love the Duke! Poor Robert Stack. With an engine hanging
off
the wing, raw fuel pouring out all over the place, the passengers
yelling
and screaming in the back that they're all going to die, solid IFR, on
vectors to the FAF with nothing but the city below him and the fuel
gauges on empty, the Duke, who KNOWS that unusable fuel just MIGHT be
usable, slaps him in the puss and hollers, "Shut up and fly!"
Ah...the movies!!! Great Stuff!! :-))

Robert Stack, hell! My wifes slaps me like that regularly...,"Shut up
and
whatever!"

DRIVE! That's the word. I hear it all the time :-))
DH

That is a great scene in a great movie. That movie is so wonderful.
It was back in an era when the "words" more or less were compliments
to the acting not the entire show.

the last scenes, the one under the wing as the manager of the airline
talks to all the crew and one by one they walk off into the fog until
it is just "the old pelican" and The manager. What acting on
everyones part. The looks in Stacks face, and the Duke...

Oh my goodness. IN a non western/war movie this is some of the best
The Duke does.

Robert

Right up there with my all time favorite scene with Dean Jagger doing the
segue at both ends of 12'oclock high.
This segue was probably one of the finest bits of creative direction and
acting ever shot on film. A masterpiece of direction by Henry King!
Dudley Henriques- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Oh yes. 12 OClock High the movie is just minute by minute awesome.
The subplots in it, the counter points made, the acting. The opening
and closing scenes are just breathtakers, as were so many scenes.

The one where "Savage' burns out. Wasnt that just amazingly played?

There are really three movies made about WWII, all in the post war
era, that just show how the war, the maxium effort "used" people up.
Didnt kill them (except in one case) just used them up. 12 O Clock
High, Away all Boats, and Sands of Iwo Jima. oh to be fair to the
Ground Army... Battle of the Bulge.

Just haunting in the acting. "I'll take the flight sir", "No let
Gatley do it, make sure Gately takes it OK" (or something like
that...) Peck of course is staring directly at Gately...

haunting. Top Gun is good, these are marvelous.

Robert