Blue Max/Tora Tora Tora/Midway movie scripts up for auction

[Chris Brame]

From Profiles in History, the folks who previously sold the P-40 miniature from God is My Co-Pilot:

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBa ... 0194371138

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/0243-T ... enameZWDVW

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/0257-M ... enameZWDVW

and this promo piece from I Wanted Wings, but you have to buy Veronica Lake's dress to get it :

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/ebay/a ... -0017b.jpg

Plus a boatload of '50s sci-fi movie posters, including this one:

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/ebay/a ... 9-0106.jpg

(that film featured CA ANG TB-25J 44-30125 and stock footage from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo )

[Jack Cook]

Midway
Starring Larry Csonka & Erik Estrada

[Jerry O'Neill]

Midway
Starring Larry Csonka & Erik Estrada

And...Magnum, PI!
Jerry

[EDowning]

Jack Cook wrote:

Midway
Starring Larry Csonka & Erik Estrada

Give Larry Csonka a break, he went on to make "Snake Eaters" in 1989 with Lorenzo Lamas, arguably one of the worst movies ever made. A brief synopsis from IMDB.
"The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as a tough loner, he returns to find the band of backwoods bad-guys who killed his parents and abducted his sister."

The movie posters used the tag line.... "To him, America is just another Jungle"

Doesn"t get any better than that.

[Jack Cook]

Eric,
The question that comes to my mind is how do you know of this movie?

[EDowning]

Jack Cook wrote:

Eric,
The question that comes to my mind is how do you know of this movie?

Jack,

I'm kind of a movie buff, at heart, I travel alot and watch 4-6 movies a week. I kind find these really horrible movies interesting, because I always wonder how they ever got made. Two great websites are
www.imdb.com
and www.rottentomatoes.com

Believe me, Snake Eaters is among the worst ever made.

[Jack Cook]

Bad movies hah.........
You didn't even mention SSSSSS or Killdozer

[astixjr]

So I wonder what these scripts will sell for? I've got an early script of Iron Eagle III, before they "fixed" the plot. It's hard to believe that turkey could have been much worse but trust me, it could have been much worse.

Eric, saw your car at the hangar today but could not find you.
Albert

Midway
Starring Larry Csonka & Erik Estrada

Ahhhhh yes ......Officer Francis Llewellyn 'Ponch' Poncherello flys Wildcats....

[P51Mstg]

Killdozer????

Man, I saw that one on TV YEARS ago (1970's??) About a D-9 that went wild and started killing everyone. I remember 2 tihings:

1. It was BAD (even when I was young)
2. It had Clint Walker in it

Mark H

[Steve Nelson]

If memory serves, "Killdozer" was a made-for-TV flick. The dozer hit a long-buried meteorite at a construction site, and was possessed by the evil alien lifeforce it contained.

Unfortunately, I remember seeing "SSSSSS" as well.


SN

[RickH]

Killdozer was an educational flick. It taught me how to kill a mad D-9 with a generator and reinforcing mesh ! ... If it ever comes up.

[EDowning]

For Jack Cook:

Killdozer is oscar worthy when compared to "The Navy vs. The Night Monsters" (1966). Below is a brief synopsis.


Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers unusual tree specimens. When specimens are shipped out for further study, the trees are accidentally introduced to a south seas Navy base, soon revealing themselves to be killer, acid-secreting monsters that live by night.

You can't make this stuff up. (Although somedbody did).

Is this what you did in the Navy, Jack? ( Or did you hang around with a constuction worker, an Indian and a cop?)

Well, at least it did star Mamie Van Doren. www.mamievandoren.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4luNhxVY2o

http://www.movieposter.com/poster/MPW-1 ... sters.html

[Chris Brame]

Navy vs. the Night Monsters? Oh, yeah, where the stock footage of an R4D segues into a civilian DC-3 making a low pass over the runway and then cuts to stock footage of a C-46 belly landing... sounds like inspiration for how they made Midway...

For that matter, how about King Dinosaur? Early scene has stock footage of a B-32 airframe being dropped several feet in a static load test - and true to form, one of its engine nacelles snaps off!

[Steve Nelson]

Wonder if that was the same B-32 that later ended up in long-term lunar storage?

SN