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Huge Steve McQueen fan. This one probably roped me in. (5 years old when it came out.) Just finishing it now. Great flick. A Classic.
BAR featured prominently.
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I saw it the first time when it came out at the drive in.....the folks thought I was asleep when it was on...I have seen it a couple times since then....GREAT Movie for sure... 0 -
Must be Steve's B-day or something. Watching "The Getaway," now. "Bullitt," coming up next. "The Cincinnati Kid" coming on after that, then the "Thomas Crown Affair," then "The Great Escape," then "Pappillon." Yes Sir. Good stuff.
Channel 132 TCM, Dish for those interested.
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1966, 1972, 1968, 1965, 1968, 1963, 1973, pretty good.
1963, "The Great Escape." An even better, more iconic Classic.
Steve was one of the best.
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Liked him in Hell is for Heroes.. 0 -
Hard to believe, he's been gone for 40 years.
Really knocked me for a loop, when I found out. He died from Mesothelioma. He had picked it up in his early years, working in a shipyard. The guys that smoked, when exposed to the airborne asbestos fibers. Were walking dead men.
It resonated with me, because I had worked in a shipyard. Early years there, nobody in the so called management. Gave a poop about the dangers of asbestos. At the end, they wouldn't even let us on the ships. When there was airborne asbestos. They had private contractors, wearing moon suits. With external air sources. They looked like divers, the way they were kitted out.0 -
Top notch classic movie, for certain!
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I read the book when it was first published. Couldn't figure out what "prang it" meant. Really said something about tha character that his first few words were spoken to the engine - "Hello engine, I'm Jake Holman". 0 -
The boxer rebellion and the Boer war / OVS are two of my favorite historical periods of study...
I own a number of the weapons used in both conflicts including the .236 Lee Navy and find both periods great examples of firearms development and of diplomacy / warfare being historically interchangeable terms...
The movie is exceptional well done - with some terrific arms featured in the background.
The China theatre littoral coastal and river patrol series of engagements involving US marines and what essentially amounts to naval infantry - from crude ersatz bespoke armed patrol craft converted from civilian merchant vessels to the beloved class of long range high speed recon patrol heavy cruisers (see USS Olympia and her sisters / see the USS Maine and her "dynamite" main gun batteries)...
Weapons development from the 1886-1904 time frame through to the treaty of Versailles period mixed in from 6-7 countries...
Not a lot of good reading or film or documentaries dedicated to these issues...
Mike
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KenTMC has their summer under the stars going on this month. They feature a star and play that stars films all day.I am a big fan of McQueen's and the Sand Pebbles is a great movie.
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It's been a lot of water under the bridge, since I saw the Sand Pebbles. Being the dirty old man that I am. The only thing that sticks in my mind is Candy Bergen.
Ran across a article with photos recently on the net, regarding Candy. Couldn't even recognize her. 55 years, down the highway of life. Has a tendency to change folks. Not criticizing Candy, she's still a classy lady.0 -
I read a sidebar on McQueen in Firearms News. It was written by a stunt double and longtime friend of McQueen. Steve McQueen accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior before he died. I was glad to read that. It will be good to see him again. 6 -
What a great movie! And, very depressing. The protagonist was killed. His Captain, Richard Crenna, and the two guys despised each other, was killed doing the same thing McQueen was doing.
What a great display of the BAR. I would love to have one of those. It didn't save the day in this film but it tried pretty well.0 -
I don't know if he's still making them? But a guy named Bob Landies from Ohio. Was making and selling fully transferable. Semi-auto BARS. Since they were originally manufactured, to be semi-auto. Perfectly legal to own, in the non-commie states. You could buy one, just as easily and legally as a Model 700 Remington. The only fly in the ointment, is the dinero. As I recall, he was asking north of 5 grand for one.allen griggs said:What a great movie! And, very depressing. The protagonist was killed. His Captain, Richard Crenna, and the two guys despised each other, was killed doing the same thing McQueen was doing.
What a great display of the BAR. I would love to have one of those. It didn't save the day in this film but it tried pretty well.0 -
They really did use a BAR in the movie. I would have bet money (and lost) that the only machine gun in the movie was a Lewis gun. 0 -
Feed tray fed potato digger in .236 navy...
Mike
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Watched Tom Horn again yesterday...another one of his great movies. 3 -
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Watched Tom Horn again yesterday...another one of his great movies.Yes Kimi, I've seen that twice in the last couple months. That is a good one.
One I've not mentioned here, but also have seen twice in the last couple months is "The Magnificent 7." Circa 1960.
We'll not see another one like Steve McQueen. He was one in a million.
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Nevada Smith a great movie by one of my favorite directors.Peckenpah and McQueen made some great films together, Junior Bonner is another really good one as is The Getaway.
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I liked "The Getaway," but it is depressing watching the degradation and ultimate suicide of "Floyd the Barber" (sorry I do not know his real name.) In that movie.
Although She has a good body in that movie, the girl (from All in the Family,) in the roll as the above mentioned characters wife, was without any compassion or morals and deserved to be slowly tortured to death. Over and over.
Have had a couple bad dreams about that recently after watching it. (Again.)
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Ken
Peckenpah was notorious for his dark side. If you have never seen A Cross Of Iron, a WW2 movie, look for it. The best war movie ever.
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wasn't "Floyd the barber" it was Howard Sprague the county clerk.......... but I do agree with you on the sally struthers character, she needed a beating. Heard in real life she went hollyweird liberal bigtime, never did much care for herKenK/84Bravo said:I liked "The Getaway," but it is depressing watching the degradation and ultimate suicide of "Floyd the Barber" (sorry I do not know his real name.) In that movie.
Although She has a good body in that movie, the girl (from All in the Family,) in the roll as the above mentioned characters wife, was without any compassion or morals and deserved to be slowly tortured to death. Over and over.
Have had a couple bad dreams about that recently after watching it. (Again.)
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Yes. You are correct hillbille.
My Bad.
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He was at that. I'm going to watch The Magnificent Seven once again...it's been a good while since the last time I saw it.KenK/84Bravo said:Yes Kimi, I've seen that twice in the last couple months. That is a good one.
One I've not mentioned here, but also have seen twice in the last couple months is "The Magnificent 7." Circa 1960.
We'll not see another one like Steve McQueen. He was one in a million.
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I saw her several years ago in Laughlin, Nevada. She no longer had a good body, put on a LOT of weight.KenK/84Bravo said:I liked "The Getaway," but it is depressing watching the degradation and ultimate suicide of "Floyd the Barber" (sorry I do not know his real name.) In that movie.
Although She has a good body in that movie, the girl (from All in the Family,) in the roll as the above mentioned characters wife, was without any compassion or morals and deserved to be slowly tortured to death. Over and over.
Have had a couple bad dreams about that recently after watching it. (Again.)
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https://www.oowinc.com/exclusives/semi-auto/1918a3-slr/rufe-snow said:
I don't know if he's still making them? But a guy named Bob Landies from Ohio. Was making and selling fully transferable. Semi-auto BARS. Since they were originally manufactured, to be semi-auto. Perfectly legal to own, in the non-commie states. You could buy one, just as easily and legally as a Model 700 Remington. The only fly in the ointment, is the dinero. As I recall, he was asking north of 5 grand for one.allen griggs said:What a great movie! And, very depressing. The protagonist was killed. His Captain, Richard Crenna, and the two guys despised each other, was killed doing the same thing McQueen was doing.
What a great display of the BAR. I would love to have one of those. It didn't save the day in this film but it tried pretty well.
Supposedly you can be placed on Ohio Ordnance's waiting list for one. I bought one 15 odd years ago. Believe I bought it direct from OO, but am not 100% sure of that. It could have been on GB. At the time it was around $ 3,500.00. There is not a price listed on the OO webpage, but the 'financing available' suggest the price is fairly steep.
A well crafted, accurate, and reliable semi-auto version of the original. It will be one of the last I get rid of as mortality approaches.0 -
I would sell my daughter to the Comanche Indians, if it would get me a BAR.
I have always loved those rifles.0 -
Sally Struthers tuned into something really bad after All In The Family.hillbille said:
wasn't "Floyd the barber" it was Howard Sprague the county clerk.......... but I do agree with you on the sally struthers character, she needed a beating. Heard in real life she went hollyweird liberal bigtime, never did much care for herKenK/84Bravo said:I liked "The Getaway," but it is depressing watching the degradation and ultimate suicide of "Floyd the Barber" (sorry I do not know his real name.) In that movie.
Although She has a good body in that movie, the girl (from All in the Family,) in the roll as the above mentioned characters wife, was without any compassion or morals and deserved to be slowly tortured to death. Over and over.
Have had a couple bad dreams about that recently after watching it. (Again.)
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