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Gang, Here's a few interesting WW2 Abbott & Costello Movie Trailers, including "KEEP 'EM FLYING!" & "BUCK PRIVATES"

"Keep 'Em Flying!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAC3xSMD20

"Buck Privates"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qbsQpG ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVP ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5H7F2Zs ... re=related

Ah Yes, I sure felt like Lou Costello during My First few weeks of USAF Basic Training!! I'm sure many of Us did...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/ ... FBasic.jpg

How I ever managed to smuggle in a camera is beyond Me!!??
Gee, I don't remember The Andrews Sisters singing to Us either?? Maybe they all had the Flu or something... Digger

heyyy abbott!!! great stuff

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

"Keep 'Em Flying!" has lots of good shots at Chino Airport (Cal-Aero Field). Many of the buildings and hangars still exist.

If anyone wants to get some screen captures I can try to duplicate them "then and now."

Gang, Check out these funny Abbott & Costello bloopers & outakes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwz9Kn6ug-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62o47bqC ... re=related

Here's those A & C impersonators that show up at Reading each year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6UutpR ... re=related

"McHale's Navy" Outakes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWa2fQJOazU

Digger

Surprisingly, the rescue at the end of Keep 'em Flying was based on an actual incident - there was an article in Reader's Digest back in the mid-70s that said it happened before the war and involved a Navy pilot in an SOC scout plane rescuing a parachutist dangling from an R2D or R4D.

And on the outtakes - they left out this exchange between A & C at the end of (I believe) Africa Screams:

ABBOTT: "Well, We've come a long way - remember the old Palace Theatre?"
COSTELLO: "The old hole ain't the same."
ABBOTT: "Remember the dressing rooms at the old Palace Theatre?"
COSTELLO: "The old hole ain't the same."
ABBOTT: "And remember Gypsy Rose Lee?"
COSTELLO: "The old hole ain't the same!"

( Remember these guys started out in burlesque.)

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

the best!!!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Interesting Factoid:

The exciting Runaway Torpedo sequence in "Keep 'Em Flying" where Lou rides the live Torpedo around the Hangars was actually a Costello Family effort. Lou's Twin Brother was the stunt-man who really rode the Torpedo during this scene. Lou was too valuable to replace...

A & C raised endless millions & millions of dollars for the War Effort. Only to be sued for millions by the Government a few years later for back taxes. That's gratatude for Ya!! ... Digger