"I only bet on sure things."
Posted on 09/03/2009 12:56:20 PM PDT by buccaneer81
"Your course of action this past year has bordered on criminal negligence. You're a weak sister, Mr. President."
"And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles - when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States.
This is one of those cases where the movie was better than the book. Of course, the threat just HAD to be from a right winger. Lyman Jordan was a mere softie, Barack Obama is an outright saboteur.
Quite true.
One can download it on a torrent.
The novel was written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II.
The screenplay was written by Rod Serling.
A little off the subject but the other day I was watching this old movie, and thought this scene was pretty classic when it comes to taxes and it was made in 1936 (You Can’t Take it with You...IRS scene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2PNsiI5eGk&feature=related
Really? I’ve read the book but never watched the movie.
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It’s on Turner Classic Movies several times a year.
Who wants in on my Preakness Pool?
"I only bet on sure things."
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>>>This is one of those cases where the movie was better than the book
I’ll agree with that on the basis of the power of the performances by Lancaster, Douglas, O’Brien, Balsam, March, et al. Even John Houseman as the treacherous Admiral. The director got some of their best work on film.
But the book still has some interesting points. Such as the General Scott’s background, winning the Medal of Honor as a WW2 P 38 pilot shooting down 7 German planes in a couple minutes by way of maturely sticking to his mission and conserving fuel unlike his comrades who goofed around requiring them to turn home, leaving the bombers unprotected (or so the Germans thought). And marine Kirk Douglas and and soldier Andrew Duggan as friends originally from sharing a foxhole from the war in Iraq or Iran, prophetic maybe.
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