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I heard this among many others in bierstubes in the Frankfurt area and also near Stuttgart as I was stationed at two US Army bases in the early 60s for 30 months. Needless to say, anything even close to Nazi memory was taboo all over W. Germany, but there were SS reunions at times, with no publi...

This Russian take on the assault on Moscow sure beat the US version of '56! My Dad really enjoyed this long version, as we saw it in a San Diego theater in '68 while I was going to SD State Univ. I am not a war/violence junkie, as I was an active anti Vietnam war activist at the time. Not vs....

There is a Vietnam doc, "The Anderson Platoon", 1966, in which one of the GIs is playing this song on his reel to reel machine as they walked through the elephant grass. Not exactly proper in a combat zone as they should be 40 paces apart in total silence. In dance clubs in the late 60s in San...

Other than the late Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou", not many can play a crazy drunk like Billy Bob Thornton...I've seen drunks at times over Christmas in some San Diego area bars, and it ain't pretty....I am put off by all the foul language in R rated movies, as I've heard most of the words in the ar...

I appreciate the correction about Wood's career as an actress. I didn't check out wikipedia so I was way off. One of my favorite Wood role was in "Gypsy" besides "West Side Story"...by the way, is Richard Beymer still around?

"Jett Rink" is one of my favorite screen names besides Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist (Brokeback Mountain), Denny Crane and Alan Shore (Shatner and Spader as lawyers) and the real name of an actress, Evangeline Lilly (Kate on "Lost") ....yep, Dean would've made a great Marlboro Man, for sure. I w...

A wonderful inspirational speech by a dedicated soldier...it was up there with Henry Vs Eve of St Crispin Day address....what a contrast to Gen G. S. Patton's speech as in the movie, "Patton" by George C Scott, on the eve of D-Day.

I saw this at 14 and to me Peck is one of the greatest actors, ever. A La Jolla native, he also was great in "Duel in the Sun" and "To Kill a Mockingbird"....I forgot that Starbuck was Ahab's first mate, or executive officer....

Unlike poor alcoholic Amy Winehouse who died at 27, Grace Slick is around 70 now, and she has been clean and sober for yrs. Slick was once on the front page of the LA Times as a classic woman rocker with the Airplane around '69.

One of my favorites of all time.....it was on the radio all over San Diego along with the Stones and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (sold more albums than the Beatles in '68)...I used to dance at the Quad Room in Clairmont to the Gap before they went big time...I saw the Stones w/ Ike and Tina Tu...

Was this pilot up for a VC, the Victoria Cross? I saw the headline months ago and it is one astounding rescue with a major injury, which is an understatement.

Lansbury and Harvey were the same age, I think....makes for an interesting mom/son relationship! "Brainwashing" was used just after the Korean war regarding "turncoat" GIs who stayed in N. Korea or China. A few remained there for decades.

Great casting! Lansbury and Harvey were the same age, I think, which makes it funny as she plays his evil mom.

This sure made director Spielberg ready for "Jaws" a few yrs later, no doubt about it!

Few actors were as fearsome as Hayden was in his heyday. Seeing him with a cigar made him all the more of a threat....

The so- called "Spruce Goose" is a misnomer--it was birchwood, not spruce. It was great to see it along with the Queen Mary. This massive Hercules flying boat was moved to McMinnville, Oregon years ago to a great museum.

Everytime I see photos or videos of German soldiers I am reminded of how my Alsatian father and grandfather resemble them. I'm a fourth generation Alsatian, the area near Strasbourg on the Rhine dividing Germany from France. Over the years we found out that two distant relatives died in Russia ...

I forgot to add that it is a shame that some armed convert bent on killing Jones didn't do it before the mass Kool Aid suicide. Two or three 40 cal. hollow point slugs to the head would have done civil humanity a good deed.

When I saw this decades ago I was convinced that we would be on Mars by now besides the Moon being a launch base and used for mining. When this movie came out we had a balanced budget, were fighting in Indochina, maintaining a huge defense establishment and had spent $40 billion to get to the Mo...

Hayden as BGen Ripper at his best....talk about a villain in uniform! Only the late Lee Marvin could be more threatening....

That's what Paul Newman went to prison for in "Cool Hand Luke" - sawing off meters for the change--in Mississippi. Yikes.

Sure, the scene is hokey, but at 18 in 1960 it was a nightmare. The two other horror movies for me are "Jaws" and "The Exorcist" (Directors Cut) in which Wm Friedkin said that he made a horror movie patrons would not forget. Another Hitchcock movie was "The Birds"...we had a pet raven, Black B...

Back in the late 60s, early 70s airliners used to drop down from the east to the San Diego Lindbergh Field (one runway) between the El Cortez Sky Room bar and another building----very thrilling but this takes the prize as those on the beach must put in ear plugs, I would think.

Jack Daniels is not bourbon, it's sour mash whiskey....oh well. This movie is a classic....this scene reminds me of being early to get to dances at the Hotel Del Coronado in the late 60s yrs before it was vastly remodeled. Almost empty bar, the bartender getting his shift together....another ...

When I saw the movie in a theater in '76 my girlfriend and many around us felt a chill when Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook, stepped out of the darkness. What astounded us is the fact that the Wash Post newsroom was a set, with extras talking, typing, dialing rotary phones and even the desks and trash...

Well, I thought I was talented in army flight ops in W Germany in the early 60s until I made it through preflight and primary at Ft Rucker, Ala. but at seven months I washed out at 22 in late '64. Great repro of the UH-1 as I still keep up with rotary wing aviation.

As an army chopper pilot candidate who washed out at 7 months in '64 at Ft Rucker, Alabama, I still love choppers esp. this movie by the director who did "Saturday Night Fever", the disco classic in '77, believe it or not. Getting persmission to film in LA was amazing--"Heat" with Al Pacino and ...

I was a GI in W. Germany in the early 60s for thirty months at two front line bases, near Frankfurt and then outside Stuttgart. An army buddy, who was of Alsatian ancestry (between France and Germany) like me, knew German and we met several German vets who were in their late 40s who spoke of the...

Rieu and his orchestra put on a great show in Orange County, Calif. several yrs ago....a great violinist and conductor.

This is one of my favorite movies and I made the comment about actor Jon Voight, a right-winger, playing FDR, who said that I am now the war president, not the New Deal president. Voight is a good actor, and I am not hung up on politics, and I do not see documentaries only, contrary to what some...

Another great movie by director Ridley Scott--I still think the late Woody Strode in "Spartacus" with Kirk Douglas done by Kubrick would have taken down Crowe so fast he would not have known what hit him...

For sixguns with five rounds at a time there sure was a lot of gunfire....Holiday fanning the hammer for a fusillade? I've heard for decades that the weapons of the time were well machined, but the black powder was not consistent. As for Earp, does anyone recall actor Hugh O'Brien playing him o...

One awesome movie but I wonder why director Mann hired ex SAS troopers to advise for the downtown LA battles....there are many American experts from several special ops outfits....

I sure liked the ride along the beach---not exactly La Jolla or Del Mar looking down on surfers or perhaps nudists at Blacks Beach! Surfs up!