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In Reply to: John Wayne? ahead of his time? posted by late on May 21, 2002 at 09:39:46:

Love the bloody carnage in "Flying Tigers"....as the Japanese pilots are shoot...they grasp their throats and blood flows out and over their hands....the good old days, right ?

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God Was My Co-Pilot - JDK 02:51:58 05/22/02 (3)
heh heh.
You don't see many of those oldies on the TV any more, thank goodness.
John Waynes acting was at its absolute stilted inept peak.
Cheers
John K
- Several others in which the Duke really acts - padreken 13:20:22 05/22/02 (2)
  The Quiet Man-wonderfully atmospheric film, with great support from veteran Irish character actors. John Ford reportedly remarked
  The Shootist-Wayne's farewell film, a poignant performance of a gunfighter dying of cancer made more so by his real life struggle with the disease.
  - Oops-premature posting - padreken 13:22:33 05/22/02 (1)
    I hadn't finished the quote from John Ford after seeing the Quiet Man - "I didn't know the big lug could act!"
    - Re: Oops-premature posting - mikenyc 14:48:32 05/22/02 (0)
      "Red River".
      "Wings of Eagles".
dance of death - late 13:54:55 05/21/02 (0)
Hi,
I am interested in dogfighting. I'm not good at it, mind you, just interested. For years I played the WW2 aerial combat game Warbirds.
It's played over the net, I was in a squad, the 111th. I thought a lot of that old Hollywoood stuff was cheesy. The plain truth is we double teamed the Japanese planes. Our planes were less maneuverable, so when a bogey got behind a plane and started shooting....his buddy would attack him.
That's why our Navy planes looked like flying bank vaults. They needed to take a few hits. The bullets we used were capable of ripping a plane apart. If one hit a person, I imagine it would make quite a mess, a l ittle more than Hollywood was used to back then. From the gun camera footage I have seen, the lightly armored planes the Japanese used simply fell apart under attack, or burst into flame, or exploded...you get the idea.

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