Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 On TCM. Great picture. Point blank artillery duel, among other things.
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 The Great Race is on next "Push the BUTTON, Max--------- OLG
Trailrider #896 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Notice the one scene where the Germans fire at the attacking Arabs and you see a whole bunch of impacts...canister!
Charlie Whiskers Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Just got through watching it. Great show.
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Capt. Jerome, USMC: Captain Jerome, United States Marine Corps, and you are my prisoner, sir. The Bashaw of Tangier: You are a very dangerous man, Captain, and your President Roosevelt is mad. Capt. Jerome, USMC : (saluting) Yes, sir! (trivia: Looking back at his filmography, it isn't difficult to imagine Vladek Sheybal in a scene, lobbing Molotov cocktails at advancing German troops, against a backdrop of war-torn Warsaw. However, this part of his life played out for real. A member of the Polish underground, he was twice captured and interred in concentration camps. Both times he escaped. "
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Can you imagine a president with the guts to actually take action against Islamic Terrorists!
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Can you imagine a president with the guts to actually take action against Islamic Terrorists!
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 I always call my wife Mrs Pedakaris. Because she is a lot of trouble.
Alpo Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 One of the little bits of business that I like in that movie is when James Bond is going on about an Arab boy getting a rifle as he becomes a man, and how you can tell a lot about a man by his rifle, and then he asks Charlie McCarthy's big sister, "And what kind of rifle does your President Roosevelt carry?" And she snaps back, "He carries a WINCHESTER!!" First time i saw that movie, Slick Willie was President. I was thinking, "Couldn't answer that question today."
Big Sarge Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 If I remember correctly, it was Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley who were kidnapped. Neither of them were US citizens. Also, there was no battle with German forces. The Raisuli Ion Perdicaris
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 I always call my wife Mrs Pedakaris. Because she is a lot of trouble. Even more so after she reads this post- OLG
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Even more so after she reads this post- OLG Har! She only reads my Facebook page.And I'm very careful there.
Noz Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 The Great Race raised a question. Why are there no longer any pretty leading men?
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Definitions of pretty change. Nowadays it seems to be a three day growth of stubble and lots of tats.
Tom Bullweed Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Funny how a couple of our most progressive presidents were the most willing to fight in Noerth Africa: Jefferson and the pirates of Tripoli, TR and FDR.
Sedalia Dave Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Har! She only reads my Facebook page.And I'm very careful there. Are you sure??????
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 "Mrs. Pedicaris, you are a lot of trouble" She hears this from me frequently. Fortunately, she laughs. So far.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 The Great Race is on next "Push the BUTTON, Max--------- OLG Saw that today. One of our favorites. One of the best bar fights ever filmed and the best bakery fight on film.
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Are you sure?????? He's still alive, isn't he?
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Saw that today. One of our favorites. One of the best bar fights ever filmed and the best bakery fight on film. And no shaving cream fake pies either. Over 300 real pies. Cherry, apple, blueberry, lemon.
Krazy Kajun Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 I saw that movie too....saw the trench shotguns. What kind of pistol was the German officer shooting toward the end of the movie in the battle scene in the town...looked like it had some kind of box shape?
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 I saw that movie too....saw the trench shotguns. What kind of pistol was the German officer shooting toward the end of the movie in the battle scene in the town...looked like it had some kind of box shape? I believe that is a C96 Broomhandle Mauser.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 I saw that movie too....saw the trench shotguns. What kind of pistol was the German officer shooting toward the end of the movie in the battle scene in the town...looked like it had some kind of box shape? Yup. Guns of The Wind and the Lion
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 I really liked the opening scene when the Brit was shooting the Arabs off their horses, ran out of ammo got a click and looked at the revolver and said "Damn" just before getting cut down.
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 I really liked the opening scene when the Brit was shooting the Arabs off their horses, ran out of ammo got a click and looked at the revolver and said "Damn" just before getting cut down.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 totally unrelated... but Steve Canaly, who played the overly enthusiastic Marine Capt. Jerome, served with the 1st Cav in Vietnam.
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 totally unrelated... but Steve Canaly, who played the overly enthusiastic Marine Capt. Jerome, served with the 1st Cav in Vietnam. Radio operator.
J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Can you imagine a president with the guts to actually take action against Islamic Terrorists! Thomas Jefferson Battle of Derne
Big Sarge Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Thomas Jefferson Battle of Derne Wasn't Jefferson the president who started the US paying tribute to the Barbary Pirates?? I think it was something close to 20% of our budget.
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Wasn't Jefferson the president who started the US paying tribute to the Barbary Pirates?? I think it was something close to 20% of our budget. Jefferson argued in the 1790s against paying any tribute, then, when he became president in 1801, put a stop to the payments. Immediately prior to Jefferson's inauguration in 1801, Congress passed naval legislation that, among other things, provided for six frigates that 'shall be officered and manned as the President of the United States may direct.' ... In the event of a declaration of war on the United States by the Barbary powers, these ships were to 'protect our commerce & chastise their insolence—by sinking, burning or destroying their ships & Vessels wherever you shall find them.'"[24] On Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha (or Bashaw) of Tripoli, demanded $225,000 from the new administration. (In 1800, Federal revenues totaled a little over $10 million.) Putting his long-held beliefs into practice, Jefferson refused the demand. Consequently, on 10 May 1801, the Pasha declared war on the U.S., not through any formal written documents but in the customary Barbary manner of cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. Consulate.[25] Algiers and Tunis did not follow their ally in Tripoli.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Alas, the world has changed much since the days of wooden ships and iron men.
Krazy Kajun Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 totally unrelated... but Steve Canaly, who played the overly enthusiastic Marine Capt. Jerome, served with the 1st Cav in Vietnam. Also played Ray Krebbs, the range hand on the TV show "Dallas."
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