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The FRiday Night Movie - The D.I. (1957)
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Posted on 01/16/2015 8:36:18 PM PST by DemforBush
Double Feature night at the DFB theater!
Technical Sergeant Jim Moore (Jack Webb) is a tough, no-nonsense D.I. with a problem - Pvt. Owens. Owens is the platoon screwup who apparently wants more than anything than to get out of the Marines. Moore, though, sees potential in Owens and won't give up on him - "There's a man under that baby powder."
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One of my favorite old movies. Webb really shines in his role. Lots of great one-liners in the movie, too.
To: FlyingEagle; Silentgypsy; verga; Gefn; bramps; perfect_rovian_storm; 1010RD; faux_hog; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
01/16/2015 8:36:42 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(You're gonna wrestle SHUTE?!? Shute's a monster! A genuine geratoid!)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
01/16/2015 8:43:02 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: DemforBush
was the sand flea a male or female?
you know the private is gonna lose no matter what he says!
awesome movie showing the Marines when they were the Marines!
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posted on
01/16/2015 8:46:04 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: DemforBush
Loved Jack Webb in Dragnet!
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posted on
01/16/2015 8:49:54 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
To: onedoug
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posted on
01/16/2015 9:14:10 PM PST
by
windcliff
To: DemforBush
Great movie.
I still remember the scene where the DI (Webb) offered the mother an out for her son. She turned him down and asked him to make her son a man.
Best DI portrayal until Full Metal Jacket.
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posted on
01/16/2015 9:57:33 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
To: DemforBush
“There’s a man under that baby powder.”
“Turns out it was just a powderpuff’ : )
To: DemforBush
To: Michael.SF.
Best DI portrayal until Full Metal Jacket. Without a single cuss word, Full Metal Jacket was a demeaning cuss fest. I was ashamed I went to see it, even worse very young children were roaming the aisles.
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posted on
01/16/2015 11:35:27 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs.98¢-89¢<1 dim)
To: Michael.SF.
Best DI portrayal until Full Metal Jacket.I'd put "Tribes" with Darren McGavin up there as well.
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posted on
01/16/2015 11:38:08 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: DemforBush
Slightly corny (as it is with just about anything Webb), yet highly watchable, (as it is with just about anything Webb).
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posted on
01/16/2015 11:45:21 PM PST
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onedoug
To: onedoug
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posted on
01/16/2015 11:50:32 PM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: itsahoot
Yet the Basic sequences of FMJ are pretty real as I can recall them from the Army.
So what? Men being men.
It’s the Vietnam sequences that are really out of touch.
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01/16/2015 11:51:37 PM PST
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onedoug
To: itsahoot
Full Metal Jacket was a demeaning cuss fest. I was ashamed I went to see it,
Well, I'm sorry, Sweet Pea. That WAS Boot Camp.
To: dfwgator
I'd put "Tribes" with Darren McGavin up there as well.
Both movies, "Tribes" and "The DI", played on TV the week before I left for San Diego. Somebody was trying to tell me something.
Reality, was worse. I assure you.
To: onedoug
Yet the Basic sequences of FMJ are pretty real as I can recall them from the Army.
Very, very real. Boot Camp, was EXACTLY like that, only a bit worse.
So what? Men being men. Its the Vietnam sequences that are really out of touch.
Ermey, actually a Drill Instructor, basically took over the Boot Camp sequences. Kubrick, who had not a clue what Vietnam was like and modeled that after a troubled Journalist, wannabe Grunt fruit loop shifted for the Hue City sequences. Compare and contrast.
Haford was a head case and acquaintance Dale Dye, irritates the sh*t out of me. Can't stand listening to him.
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
By all means, YES. Webb goofing himself. GREAT!
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01/17/2015 12:16:32 AM PST
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onedoug
To: 98ZJ USMC
I actually had an anti-Haford letter published in the LA Times in response to some laudical nonsense of his that had been run there about 4-5 days before.
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01/17/2015 12:31:31 AM PST
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onedoug
To: DemforBush
I've been gigged for this before here (they actually showed MOVIES?!?!?) But it's true. Parris Island 1989, we saw 'Sands of Iwo Jima', which I'd seen before, and 'The D.I.', which I'd never seen. Have both on DVD.
Rodriguez - If you were completely surrounded this morning by an enemy force of 500 men, what would you do?
Kill 'em, sir!
I bought my Dress Cover used. The name inside it was Owens. I always thought that was funny.
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01/17/2015 2:51:09 PM PST
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real saxophonist
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