Saturay Movies Fyi

[norgale]

Today,May 23, is military day on TCM ,Turner Classic Movies chanel, if you can get it. Army,Navy and AirForce films from the fourties with lots of actual footage of the old ships and planes ect.
9:45 AM is "Task Force", a Navy film about the development of the aircraft carrier.
5:30 PM is "They Were Expendable" which is all about PT boats in WWll.
Lots of real footage from the war dept. in both movies so have your camera ready to get some real shots of real ships. Pete

[Kmot]

Thanks for the heads up Pete. For west coasters on DirecTV here is the schedule:

TODAY MAY 23
06:45am
Task Force TVPG (CC)



08:45am
Flying Tigers TVPG (CC)



10:30am
Back to Bataan TVPG (CC)



12:15pm
Pride of the Marines TVG (CC)



02:30pm
They Were Expendable TVPG (CC) DVS



05:00pm
Battleground TVPG (CC) DVS



TONIGHT MAY 23
07:15pm
A Walk in the Sun TV14 (CC)



09:15pm
The Fighting Sullivans TVG



11:15pm
Objective, Burma! TVPG (CC)


And tomorrow:

TOMORROW MAY 24
06:00am
Submarine Command TVG



07:30am
We Dive at Dawn



09:15am
Operation Crossbow TVPG (CC)



11:15am
A Look Back at Crossbow



11:30am
Where Eagles Dare TV14 (CC)



02:15pm
The Bridge on the River Kwai TVPG (CC)



05:00pm
Above and Beyond TVPG (CC)



07:15pm
The Dam Busters TVG (CC)



09:30pm
A Sailor-Made Man TVG



10:20pm
Shoulder Arms TVG



11:00pm
Ballad of a Soldier TVPG


And Monday, the holiday:

MONDAY MAY 25
06:30am
Hell Is for Heroes TVPG (CC)



08:00am
Men of the Fighting Lady TVPG (CC)



09:30am
The Devil s Brigade TV14 (CC)



11:45am
The Dirty Dozen TVPG (CC) DVS



02:19pm
Operation Dirty Dozen



02:30pm
Kelly s Heroes TV14 (CC) DVS



05:00pm
Sergeant York TVG (CC) DVS



07:30pm
The Dawn Patrol TVPG (CC) DVS



09:30pm
The Fighting 69th TVPG (CC)



11:15pm
The Big Parade TVG

[Kmot]

Just finished watching "They Were Expendable" for the umpteenth time. :p

Still an awesome movie!

[norgale]

Thanks for the list Tom. I just watched the same movie and it was great. That's one movie where you can see some good closeup pics of the PT's in action. The film was made in 45 to show the year 41 so the boats are probably renumbered later models. They were really something to watch in action.
Big weekend for war movies and I ain't leavin' the house for nuttin'. Pete

[jeepers1940]

I watched "Expendable" too, and I can't see it too many times. I have the book, have read it at least twice and find it makes me appreciate the movie even more. Each is good in its own genre.
I realize that it is a movie that was made about events in 1941 and -42, and released in 1945, so its absolute authenticity might be suspect by some, but I didn't see a single number on the bow of a PT hull in the whole movie. Small numbers on the pilot house sides and fronts, yes, but nary a one on a hull side near the bow. Is there a lesson for PT model builders here?

[norgale]

Good point Jeepers and your right as i don't remember seeing any bow numbers either. I never could figure out why the Navy would go to all the trouble of using camo paint on the boats and then put a nice big number on the bow for the enemy to shoot at. Maybe that was something developed by the media or the model makers.
OK. Movies all day today. Pete

[norgale]

Any submariners out there? I always wanted to know if the periscope could be used to see underwater? Pete

[norgale]

So far I've watched two sub-movies,boiled over my coffee warming it up,left the shirts in the dryer so now they are all wrinkled, and now the third sub-movie which is a Brit movie with them speaking their peculiar brand of English which I mostly don't understand. Jeeze! These movies are dangerous to your health me thinks. Pete

[jeepers1940]

Hang in there, Pete. One more day of all-day war movies, and we can get back to some semblance of normal in our lives. I know what you mean about schedule disruption, though. People like us are eating and sleeping at odd times so that we won't miss a movie that we particularly want to see. And my wife asks, "How many times have you seen THAT one?" She has difficulty believing that there are some that I really haven't seen before.
And, Pete, I know that I don't have to remind you to fly your flag, especially tomorrow. No, don't fly it upside down, we're not quite to that point yet.
We're having intermittent rain, so it's not ideal flag-flying weather here. Maybe you're drier down your way.
Concerning the PT hull numbers, it seems that someone, maybe Patmat, said that the completed boats left their factory with hull numbers on them. But upon their arrival in the area of operations, they were very quickly painted over.

[Kmot]

07:15pm
The Dam Busters TVG (CC)
This one's on my list for tonight. :)

[jeepers1940]

Yep, another good movie, Tom. Guy Gibson was killed later in the war on another mission. It was interesting to get brief glimpses of a young Robert Shaw in this 1955 movie. Some twenty years later, he would make an indelible impression on moviegoers in "Jaws" as captain of the Orca, on a different kind of mission, with a different outcome. :eek:

[Kmot]

I noticed that too, and the credits confirmed it was the Great White hunter.

Here is some info on Operation Chastise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

[jeepers1940]

That is a very comprehensive article. You wonder how large a "fleet" of Lancaster bombers the movie makers were able to assemble in 1955, some 10 years after the end of the war. Many scenes in the movie showed a vic of three aircraft at a time, and one shot of planes on the ground showed four aircraft; this was the scene with the most aircraft in the movie.
The sound of those Merlin engines was a neat feature of the film.

[norgale]

Fly your flags at half staff today until noon,then full staff. A prayer for the boys overseas won't hurt either. Pete