Jack Webb in The D.I.

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[DemforBush]

A brief clip from a great old movie with Dragnet's Jack Webb.

[DemforBush]

I imagine a lot of FReepers have seen this one before, but for those who haven't, it's really quite a treat.

[nickcarraway]

Does he have any copper clappers?

[GeronL]

thanks

[Morgana]

[NoCmpromiz]

Does he have any copper clappers?

[Robwin]

I recall that movie from when I was a boy. It presented a most appealing picture of what it was like to be in the military and what it was like to be a man.

What was the sex of that flea you just killed?

[JimSEA]

A classic. However, I’m not going to show it to my Thai wife. I’d literally never hear the end of it.

[teeker]

I loved this film (they never seem to show it on television anymore). Jack Webb in one of his best roles (did they ever find that dead sand flea?).

[righttackle44]

LOL. Many contemporary Marines—including my son—don’t know what pogey-bait is.

[glyptol]

That was then. Today it would be male, female, other.

[Lizavetta]

My father wrote the screenplay. One of his first.

[Clemenza]

You never see “The Sergeant” with Rod Steiger either,

[aposiopetic]

Wow. That is something! You rightly honor him as we approach Father’s Day in little more than a week.

[Mike Darancette]

S^%$ can reveille. Usually the container is thrown across the barracks.

[zeestephen]

One thing jumped out at me.

The recruits are calling Sergeant Jack Webb, “Sir.”

Is that a script error, or was the military protocol different in those days?

[doorgunner69]

I actually had a DI that was often hilarious, to the detriment of the platoon. If we laughed, hell would descend on us.

We lived in Quonset huts, so rousting out at 0430 or whatever was not the raucous routine as Webb did here. It was a trash can tossed into the hut.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Dragnet: The Lost Episode

http://youtu.be/zPp9mjp6eow

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Part Two:

http://youtu.be/m4r6YCUtxfs

[fella]

Rifles stowed in racks in the middle of the bay. Not in todays military when tyrants fear the military and make war on them while they serve and after.

[fella]

Webb was also pretty funny on the film “Your in the Navy Now”.