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The Wind and the Lion - Military Intervention!

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Uploaded by on Sep 1, 2009

Probably my favorite movie scene of all time, from John Milius's 1975 classic The Wind and the Lion. US Ambassadors Gummere (Geoffrey Lewis) and Dreighton (Darrel Fetty) have been unable to negotiate release of Eden Perdicaris (Candice Bergen), so Admiral Chadwick (Roy Jenson) and Captain Jerome (Steve Kanaly) seize upon a new alternative - military intervention!

The dialogue in this scene is hilarious and brilliantly-written, and the acting impeccable. Either gung-ho fascism at its most outlandish or a brilliantly pointed satire of US foreign policy. Either way, it's a great scene. "Gentlemen, if we fail and are killed, I certainly hope that the world DOES go to war!"

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  • something is wrong with the streaming.

  • @corporalcharlie Yeah I was having problems with it too. Youtube is always iffy.

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  • @ARP7777777

    yea Lexington and Concord was pretty cavalier and stupid, look where it got us. So was Trenton, Princeton....Saratoga?

    The war in Iraq ended a year ago, succesfully.

  • Can you upload scenes of the Bashaw of Tangier ?

  • I wanted to like the movie but it started and stopped so much that I couldn't enjoy or follow it.--Too bad - so sad.

  • Great scene, even if I think the cavalier attitude to conflict is pretty damn stupid. You can see the shades of the ghosts of both Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan in this. . . Even though I LOVE Teddy Roosevelt, he could be a VERY patriarchal person at times. But he was one of the best presidents we, the American people have ever had!

  • "Gentlemen, if we fail or are killed, I certainly hope that the world does go to war. "

    "...A world at war."

    "A World War....that would be something to go out on."

    I love John Milius so much.

  • this is in my top 10 movie scenes of all time

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