USS Independence Found

[geofflambert]

No, Midway. He played Halsey in that. Stuck in bed with dermatitis or something.

[oaltinyay]

For me this sums up John Wayne....

http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/wp ... ogburn.jpg

[geofflambert]

Did everyone see the post I did in another thread? It was a link to an interview with Michael Caine who did some amazing impressions of Wayne. Most hilariously a bunch of actors were meeting for some reason or other and they gave Wayne Hamlet's soliloquy to read out loud. He read a few lines and then said something like "What the f? Who wrote this ****?" [:D][:D][:D]

[oaltinyay]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

No, Midway. He played Halsey in that. Stuck in bed with dermatitis or something.

That's right... now I remembered. Charlton Heston blurred my memories of the movie.

Does anyone remember the 'winds of war' by Herman Wouk (I guess ) TV series. It was a huge hit in Turkey in late 80's, but I regularly pissed people off by commenting on the various inaccuracies in the production like 'hey that's not a M41 German uniform or this is not a german Halftrack'

[oaltinyay]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Did everyone see the post I did in another thread? It was a link to an interview with Michael Caine who did some amazing impressions of Wayne. Most hilariously a bunch of actors were meeting for some reason or other and they gave Wayne Hamlet's soliloquy to read out loud. He read a few lines and then said something like "What the f? Who wrote this ****?" [:D][:D][:D]

I couldnt find it , can you please direct us to the post ?

[geofflambert]

I'll try and find it. It wasn't the "Alas poor Yorick" one but "To be or not to be. Whether tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or by opposing end them."

[geofflambert]

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dgm_MQgIUg

[geofflambert]

Forgot "That is the question". Just watched it again. Caine is hysterical.

[oaltinyay]

Any Lee Marvin fans here ? I did like him a lot. He seemed more 'realistic' when it came to gritty movies. The one he played with Toshiro Mifune was very good. I cant see Duke playing that one ( he would have shot Mifune in the second 5 minutes )

[geofflambert]

Everybody likes Lee Marvin. Did you bring that up because YouTube fed you a one of him after the Caine bit? I didn't like "The Big Red One" much (the movie with Luke Skywalker in it). It played like a TV movie from that era. The extended scene of him with the boy from the concentration camp was well done though.

[geofflambert]

He could do comedy too. Remember him playing two different characters in "Cat Ballou"?

[oaltinyay]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Everybody likes Lee Marvin. Did you bring that up because YouTube fed you a one of him after the Caine bit? I didn't like "The Big Red One" much (the movie with Luke Skywalker in it). It played like a TV movie from that era. The extended scene of him with the boy from the concentration camp was well done though.

Yes and no, he came to my mind when u mentioned Midway -> Toshiro was there -> Lee Marvin

[oaltinyay]

Cat Ballou , of course I do with Jane Fonda right ?

[IdahoNYer]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

No, Midway. He played Halsey in that. Stuck in bed with dermatitis or something.

JW wasn't in Midway. Robert Mitchum played Halsey.

[geofflambert]

oops

gonna have to get my brain checked for aluminum deposits.

[danlongman]

I thinks the one that Lee Marvin did with Toshiro Mufune was Hell In The Pacific.
I am too lazy right now to practice google-fu. I like Lee Marvin in Raintree County.

[oaltinyay]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

oops

gonna have to get my brain checked for aluminum deposits.

and where does that put me ?

[oaltinyay]

ORIGINAL: danlongman

I thinks the one that Lee Marvin did with Toshiro Mufune was Hell In The Pacific.
I am too lazy right now to practice google-fu. I like Lee Marvin in Raintree County.

wasnt he a real marine ?

[geofflambert]

Yes he was. Purple Heart x3 I think. Pacific.

[DD696]

Ah, Lee Marvin. Only one purple heart received during the battle for Saipan.

A Marine's Marine. He's been gone 28 years now.

One of the best - not like the pretty boy actors today.