April airplane films on TCM

[The Inspector]

Goldie Hawn before 'Laugh-in'? You tube Paul Revere and the Raiders 'Kicks' ( HQ) she's the go-go dancer on the far right. PR&R were a Northwest rock group in the mid 60's who wound up on Dick Clarks 'Where the action is'. A real show band and good music too!

[Chappie]

Love Those Magnificent Men......

Ground crew: Can you fly a plane?

German officer: 'Zer iz notzing a German officer cannot do! (Looks at book) Step 1: Get in za plane. Okay!


Still wanting/wishing for The Right Stuff and Strategic Air Command.


Chappie

[Rajay]

Goldie Hawn before 'Laugh-in'? You tube Paul Revere and the Raiders 'Kicks' ( HQ) she's the go-go dancer on the far right. PR&R were a Northwest rock group in the mid 60's who wound up on Dick Clarks 'Where the action is'. A real show band and good music too!

Remember them well! I had a very "cool" and "hip" 5th grade English teacher who wanted us to learn some of the more politically "relevant" songs of the time (1971-1972) and she taught us all of the lyrics to their "Cherokee Nation" as well as Dion's "Abraham, Martin, & John"

And although I remember (barely!) the original run of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, I also fondly remember when it was shown years later in syndication on Comedy Central. Maybe it's just my own age showing, but I always thought that it was both timeless and dated at the same time - if that's possible. Guess that means that it was simply very good comedy.

Thanks for those memories - and this unusally free-spirited thread!

Speaking of which, in order to get a little more back on track...

Also love - and always looking out for - "Strategic Air Command" but wish they had done without some of the back story. Never really liked June Allyson (too whiny!) and never really bought a somewhat older Jimmy Stewart as a "rookie" baseball pitcher or new dad.

Another similar offering from about that same time period (maybe just a tad later since according to IMDB it came out in 1964) was "Flight from Ashiya" starring Yul Brenner and Richard Widmark. It too had a bit too much soap-opera melodrama, especially in the flashbacks, but I just can't get enough of the SAR Albatrosses!

[The Inspector]

For some reason, the studio paired Stewart off with Allyson about 347 times, I'm surprised she didn't turn up in Spirit of St. Louis.
Richard Widmark was also a pilot in a movie can't recall the name of, where he flew a privately owned G-73.

[Rajay]

Slattery's Hurricane (1949)

In addition to the Grumman Mallard, there were babes - Linda Darnell and Veronica Lake!
And a Navy Privateer hurricane hunter as I recall...

[The Inspector]

Slattery's Hurricane (1949)

In addition to the Grumman Mallard, there were babes - Linda Darnell and Veronica Lake!
And a Navy Privateer hurricane hunter as I recall...

Linda Darnell who played Chihuahua in 'My darling Clemintine' had a life long fear of fire and ironically died in a house fire in 1965.

Veronica Lake died 7/7/73 of hepatitus and renal failure due to alcoholism.

[Chris Brame]

Linda Darnell who played Chihuahua in My Darling Clementine had a life long fear of fire and ironically died in a house fire in 1965.

She died in my hometown of Glenview, IL in a housing development across the street from the McDonald's we went to. Story was it was tax time and she was trying to save the $1500 cash she had just taken out to pay her taxes. When the firemen pulled her out she was badly burned and cursing a blue streak! She died in the hospital shortly afterward.

[Rajay]

Slattery's Hurricane (1949)

In addition to the Grumman Mallard, there were babes - Linda Darnell and Veronica Lake!
And a Navy Privateer hurricane hunter as I recall...

Linda Darnell who played Chihuahua in 'My darling Clemintine' had a life long fear of fire and ironically died in a house fire in 1965.

Veronica Lake died 7/7/73 of hepatitus and renal failure due to alcoholism.

Even so, they were still "babes" in their day.

I remember Linda Darnell mostly from Tyrone Power's "The Mark of Zorro" from 1940.

I've always loved those kinds of "outlaw" hero stories - just like Robin Hood too - of which Disney's animated version was the all-time best, but of course Errol Flynn's version was the next best!