Posted on 09/16/2016 12:34:11 AM PDT by Fai Mao
This is a good one
Steve McQueen
Robert Wagoner
Thanks for the post.
Bkmk for the widescreen.
Funny, I was remembering the wrong movie, and thought it was the one with him in that looked like this:
As I thought of it, I remembered the scene (I watched the movie "Hell is for Heroes" on Veterans Day, 2014) above that I was so struck by the face of McQueen's character that I snapped a picture of it with my phone, and remembered doing it when I read your post, so I had to go through about a thousand pictures to find it.
I know it is Hollywood. I know he is an actor. But there was something about his face in that one scene in the movie that struck me as seeming to be stunning authentic...something in the eyes, a hollow look he somehow captured on the screen.
Bigtime
The war pix from the 50s and 60s had the actors in them who’d fought in WWII and some in Korea.
They had flint.
Boy, they sure did. That is one of the reasons I find the snowflakes we see now in our young men to be so offensive.
Perhaps if we didn't have men and women of that generation to compare them to, the Snowflakes of today wouldn't seem so egregiously effeminate, delicate, and weak.
Perhaps, but...probably not.
That movie was great.The movie company actually flew 3 B17s to England for the filming of this movie.It just so happens that I am transporting the forward fuselage of the B17 used in some of the soundstage shots for this movie.As a matter of fact this hulk was used in most of the movies that featured B17s.12 oclock high,thousand plane raid,the war lover, tora tora tora.It was not used in the movie Memphis belle.This fuselage section was hung in a bar in Greeley colorada for thirty years.Some of you may have seen it there.
Absolutely outstanding quality as well as a good movie.
Some of the best B-17, up close, flying footage. I’ll bet the pilots flying for the movie had a blast!
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