I can't remember the Name of the movie, but John Wayne played Capt/RADM Rock Torrie, Burgess Mederith was a PR person, Patricia Oneal was Wayne's romantic interest and Kirk Douglas was Cmdr Eddington.
I Harms Way Maybe?
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I can't remember the Name of the movie, but John Wayne played Capt/RADM Rock Torrie, Burgess Mederith was a PR person, Patricia Oneal was Wayne's romantic interest and Kirk Douglas was Cmdr Eddington.
I Harms Way Maybe?
Beginner
It was "In Harms Way" indeed, based on a novel by Basset I think. Good book, good flick.
Quote:
Here’s one I’ve been using an awful lot lately: “A lousy situation, Commander Eddington”
The quote referst to the state of things in the hours following the Pearl Harbor. I could go on, but I wont....
__________________ "If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful." Letter to his son Kermit, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 1915
Once you pull mister pin, mister grenade is no longer your friend.
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