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On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:49:06 GMT, "Straight Man" <straight.man@straight.org>
wrote:
>Hi Plopper!
>
>I really appreciate your nzb for Strategic Air Command. I really did look
>for the movie for oto. Don't know how I could have missed it. Glad you
>didn't!
>
>Strategic Air Command is not on my Favorites list. Jimmy Stewart is one of
>my all-time top five actors. Plus, I enjoy watching June Allyson I think she
>was great in this movie and in The Glenn Miller Story. It was also great to
>see Harry Morgan. I remember him as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet, and as
>Col. Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H.
>
>I like the actors and I like the subject matter, I like the movie. I think
>what kept it off of my Favorites list is the copy I had. I had a 4x3 copy
>that wasn't really 4x3. That shouldn't affect the Favorites list, but it
>has to indirectly by affecting the enjoyment factor.
>
>It'll be on the Favorites list now. Thanks again!
Once you get over the fact that this is Hollywood's unabashed worship of the
U.S. Air Force it's not a bad movie by '50's standards. Some of the best film
of the B-36 and B-47 you'll ever see. And, because it's Jimmy Stewart,
there's a decent dash of humour, too.
Thanks for posting it!
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