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What is your favorite aviation movie?
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Posted on 07/06/2013 4:42:52 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: ken5050
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posted on
07/06/2013 5:58:56 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: 21twelve
That was a good one - I’d forgotten about that. Too bad Breathed was such a loony lib.
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posted on
07/06/2013 5:59:10 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: ken5050
Don’t remember the name...Robert Stack..Edmund Obrian and live footage of P47s over England in WW2
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:01:49 PM PDT
by
virgil283
( ... """" With God all things are possible."''''''' ....)
To: ken5050
My favorite aviation movies that are not war films include:
- Dirigible (1931)--a dirigible must rescue stranded explorers in Antarctica--directed by Frank Capra
- Flying Down to Rio (1933)--a musical with some great production numbers featuring aircraft
- Lost Horizon (1937)--passengers aboard a plane fleeing Japan's invasion of China find themselves headed for a strange lamasery in Tibet.
- The Wizard of Oz (1925)--This film features some aviation scenes, as when the infant Princess Dorothea, the rightful heir to the throne of Oz, is flown to a Kansas farm to escape the evil junta that rules the country, when agents of the junta fly to Kansas to get her, and when one of the good guys uses an airplane to try to rescue the Scarecrow.
- The High and the Mighty (1954)--drama aboard an airliner.
- The Crowded Sky (1960)--a Navy plane and an airliner are on a colliion oourse.
To: ken5050
Without a doubt “Always” with Richard Dreyfus, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, et al.
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:03:16 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
To: rlmorel
Mmmm K.... Before I went to nursing school, then switched to aviation, I was pursuing a degree in psychology. Let’s talk about your dream....I probably try to suspend disbelief way too often.
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:03:24 PM PDT
by
pops88
(Geek chick standing with Breitbart for truth)
To: Sirius Lee
OH, that looks like a good one!
To: Textide
‘Why can’t they make films like this anymore?’
People would require more than a tenth grade education and an attention span longer than a two year old to appreciate a film of greater emotional depth than “the Transformers”
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:06:24 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: rlmorel
Another trivia factoid. Slim Pickens actually said Dallas but they voiced over the scene to have him say Las Vegas because of JFK’s assassination. But I suspect you already knew that since you said Dallas.
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:06:43 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: pops88
Heh, I dream a lot and often. Usually not nightmares, though. I have found that eating pepperoni right before going to sleep will give unusually vivid dreams...:)
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:06:44 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Silence: The New Hate Speech)
To: saganite
Heh, I didn’t know that until I copied the quote from a website. Interesting trivia...
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:07:29 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Silence: The New Hate Speech)
To: ken5050
I liked The Guardian with Kevin Costner.
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:08:33 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(President Obama; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
To: raybbr
I like that one as well...
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:09:15 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Silence: The New Hate Speech)
To: ken5050
High Road to China, with Tom Selleck
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:10:08 PM PDT
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: yarddog
Upon leaving the USAF in 1955. Pratt and Whitney hired him. Gave dad a job in 1955. Worked 35 years there. His MOS was crew chief, mechanic. Harry Morgan played the role in the movie and had about 6 stripes. Dad got up to Airman 1st Class, 3 stripes. I found his DD-214 after he passed away. Good Conduct Medal and National Defense Service Medal. He did his job. I also have a cool scrapbook of pictures of in flight refueling and USAF fighters flying in support formation. I don’t have a scanner though. The fuelers looked like a retrofitted B-29.
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:13:57 PM PDT
by
dancusa
(Molon Labe)
To: reg45
I guess you're right. The guy who built model airplanes.
I just looked this up, but guess where their original destination was? Before they crashed, I mean.
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:18:34 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(This is a sarcasm tag for the retards unable to recognize sarcasm.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
That was an amazing movie, quite the find when I accidentally came across it.
To: Fiji Hill
How about “13 Hours by Air” (1936)? That was a really enjoyable aviation-themed flick. One of the earliest in regards to passenger service. Used to be a commonly encountered flim on the late-shows of the 60s/70s, but has long since disappeared from view. Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett.
To: ken5050
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posted on
07/06/2013 6:24:29 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: ken5050
The Flying Tigers
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