Posted on 05/17/2019 9:47:02 AM PDT by Borges
It’s one of my all-time favorite movies and I have the DVD. I’ve watched it many times and I’ve read the book 3 times.
Wouk started the screen play but the director didn’t like it and replaced him.
Several of the actors are older than the characters in the book. For instance, Queeg in the book is 30, but is portrayed by 53 year old Bogart in the movie. I think his performance is excellent, though.
When they did the sequel the thought was that Mitchum was getting too old to play that role, but in the public’s mind he was Pug Henry and he did a great job. May have been one of the best roles he ever had.
What I really enjoyed about the series is the depiction of the invasion of Poland. Wouk and the series stayed true to history to tell the story. In fact the whole historical fiction genre is Wouk’s with those two books. (Well Victor Hugo can have a piece of that pie too).
The character of Pug was everywhere, but not at the top of the chain, just a couple of steps below.
You know, one say I went searching for the series on Youtube and did find it as a Spanish sub titled version. It was all individual episodes and took great work to try and mesh it all together. Well worth the effort.
He is one of those artists I thank God for.
He appeared as a mystery guest on “What’s My Line,” and that’s how I found out he started as a comedy writer. Coincidentally, Fred Allen was a panelist on that show. One of Wouk’s books came up just yesterday as a suggestion on Kindle. I knew he was old, and wondered if he were still around. A great writer and man. RIP.
I had been trying to remember the name of a Herman Wouk novel that I considered one his most underrated, it was “Inside/Outside”.
I remember my Great Uncle John telling me to read it as it was unlike any of Wouk’s other novels and he was right. It was different, funny and poignant at the same time.
Great novel.
I believe it is on Youtube, I watch it every so often as I am fascinated by pre-W.W. II life and history as well as the war years itself. That series does a great job with all of it.
Episode 3 about the battle of midway, could be is owm film.
[And I. M. Pei at 102.
Difficult to last past 100.]
And Jane Seymour was a big improvement over Ali McGraw.
This "Jackie Robinson of jewish authors" is an interesting claim. In college I took a class on short fiction and the fiction of ubran jewish authors in the 40s and 50s was obviously a pet rock of the professor. We read a lot of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth and people like that. But Herman Wouk's name was never mentioned. I guess he just wrote novels, not short fiction. I never knew he paved the way for those other guys.
Kirk Douglas is 102.
I totally agree!!
----------------------Robinson Of Jewish-American Fiction,' Dies At 103,P.-----“I’m a lot drunker than you, so it will be a fair fight.”
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The Story of Job from War and Remembrance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwqohkCRylY
Didn’t care for Gielgud’s private life, but he was a heckuva actor.
[Kirk Douglas is 102.]
Yeah, but could he steal bases?
Still have Kirk Douglas & Olivia de Havilland both born 1916
As I get older in life, I think of how few years remain. There’s a tendency to think you’re winding down, and I think that is a mistake.
Here’s a guy that lived to 103. If I should live to that age, I’d live over half my current life span into the future.
There are many possibilities. People should pursue them and not think as it is human nature to think.
RIP Mr Wouk.
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