1941 the movie

Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:11 pm

So which warbirds were used in the movie, and where are they now?

Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:20 pm

I believe the P-40 is Rudie Frasca's. Still has it in Illinois.

Todd

Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:47 pm

gtokid wrote:I believe the P-40 is Rudie Frasca's. Still has it in Illinois.

Todd

The night I was on the set with Steve Hinton when they were filming the scenes around when Belushi lands and taxis up to the Army post at night. Steve did the taxi scene with the wild twin Beech.
Tom Camp was there with his P-40. We were standing next to a heater as it was the fall w/ Santa Ana's blowing. We were soon joined by a couple of others and I looked up to see Wild Bill Kelso standing next to me. Only I knew at the time it was John Belushi. In the filming the night before Belushi had fallen off the wing of the P-40 IIRC. It wasn't in the script and he got banged up some. They kept that in the movie.
I also got to drop by Long Beach Airport and watch the filming of the B-17 scene where the bomb rolls along and blows up. The B-17 was Sentimental Journey. The Skytyper's T-6s were parked around the Ramp.
Rich

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Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:48 pm

The P-40 was privately owned as N1207V and
was built as a Kittyhawk Mk. I (AL752). It was
flown in the film by Tom Camp. It is now at
the War Eagles Museum in New Mexico.
The P-40 that crashes on the street was a leftover
P-40 mock-up from "Tora!".
N1207V had also flown in "Tora!" in 1969 along with N151U.
The molds for the fake "Tora!" P-40's were made from N1207V.

The B-17 was N9323Z of Aero Union Corp. and is now
"Sentemental Journey" with the CAF. It was retro-fitted
to look like a B-17E.
The airport scene was shot at Long Beach Airport, CA. with
N9323Z, 3 B-25's and 6 AT-6's, ID's unknown.

Beech 18 was an unknown wreck mocked-up in the studio.

Simon Beck
www.uswarplanes.net

Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:47 pm

What a great movie as the part where the P-40 lands on the highway and pulls in for a fill up is my favorite part. I had it marked on my VHS taped in the days before DVD's...

Lynn

Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:22 pm

3 P-40's were used....Rudy Frasca's, Tom Camp's and my Dad's second E model which is now owned by Kermit Weeks.

Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:35 pm

There is a link on Barnstormers under the bones section that has a photo of the P-40 mock up. http://www.barnstormers.com/msp40001.html

Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:02 am

Anyone have any ideas on the B-25's, T-6's and the Beech 18 ID's?

Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:02 am

The B-17 was not Aero Unions, it was known as Sentimental Journey at that time, it was the first movie it was in.

Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:38 am

I heard somewhere it was Rudy's P-40 that Belushi busted the bottle over it's windshield. He was none to happy about that. Anyone else heard this? it was a while ago I heard this.

The only clip I can find is this one and it's in a foreign language, but still funny.

And I forgot....Then He throws the bottle onto the wing! Hope it was a prop back then but you never know!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0g_MhKL9g

Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:27 am

If I had to guess I would say that was a prop he was in. What a great movie.

Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:52 pm

I believe that the bottle was a prop and was actually made of sugar.

Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:57 pm

Any breakable glass you will ever see and a movie is made of sugar. Real glass is much much harder to break, and it's also dangerous as hell. A hit in the head with real glass can really hurt someone. And breaking the bottom off a beer bottle is really dangerous, and not so easy to do. THe bottle Belushi froke would have been sugar. If it wasn't and the props union found out, the prop manager would never work again. They're pretty serious about a star being seriously injured. If Belushin had broken his back falling of taht plaen there would have been hell to pay.

Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:11 pm

"Fill it................Ethel"

Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:33 pm

muddyboots wrote:If Belushi had broken his back falling of that plane there would have been heck to pay.

Dunno 'bout that 'Boots, if the studio's legal folks were worth their salt a drug test would have put
that lawsuit to bed. :wink:

If you use the WIX search "Belushi", more info is available from past threads about the movie...