flashback42

Anything more? No response, no new clues for 7 days.

A test run set up (after invention of the tail hook): Five jets to land on a carrier. One crashed. But investigation proved that it was a mechanical failure within the plane. The test was rated a success, and the conversion to jets-on-carriers went farward. Even near the end of his career, and into retirement, the Officer was both an advocate and a role model for wounded veterans. Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 27, 2012 4:01 PM

Late 1970s. two-night miniseries, later reworked into a TVM. Also followed by a 1&1/2 season series. New York setting; a conflict with Black activists. A set-up to deliberately assissinate a Police Officer and gain media attention.

Walter -- Brian Dennehy in Cocoon (1985)

Strangers On A Train ??? Open, if correct.

Oookayyy, let's see how long this one lasts. The job of turning good writers into movie hacks is the producer's chief task.

It's from Roger Ebert's review of Heaven's Gate . Reference to director Michael Cimino.

Sampson, Will -- Clint Walker in The Dirty Dozen

Swingin' wild here. Billy Barty?

Not Wings Of Eagles . At one stretch, a problem play: The officer was key man in adapting the Navy to being able to deploy jets on an aircraft carrier. The problem to solve: landing the craft on the relatively short runway. They went through the process of solving that and other issues.

Perfecto -- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez in Hook, Line and Sinker (1969)

yeah, yeah, been tracking down a memory. Found it. Mid 1950s. B&W. Fact based. The career of a high-ranking Naval officer. Overcame a serious injury to stay on active duty. His wife was distressed by some of his decisions, in that they kept him away from home longer. He turned down a possible desk job (still on duty) in order to be close to the action. Spanned from the end of WWII, to action in Korea.

THE BLOB? Steve McQueen? Anita Corsaut as Mrs. Andy Taylor?

Down in less than 15 Views. True -- The mothers of the young marrieds were the big cast names and the title characters. Episode "Didn't You Use To Be Ozzie Snick?" Broadcast 22 December 1968. I saw it on first-run, too. FranklinPangborn's thread.

OOpsie! re Hey Boy on HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, I failed to enter the actor's name: Kam Tong. My bad.

Hey Boy -- Asian house serveant -- and the other other regular -- on HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL , (1957-63 on CBS TV)

161 "My voice tested okay! They're going to let me work in the talkies!"

Thanks, Sixes. Mid-to-late 1960s Sitcom. Two families, neighbors. The son from one family married to the daughter of the other family. An episode where the wife of one family, with a background in show business, had a reunion with a band leader she had once worked wity. This guest star had a background as a real bandleader, and also as a series star. Who? What series? What guest?

...Also Ava Gardner in BHOWANI JUNCTION (1956) and Richard Burton in THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR (1955)

Getting no responses; some 215 Views; retiring the question. THE GREAT SCOUT AND CATHOUSE THURSDAY (1976). Lee Marvin and Robert Culp in the grudge match; Elizabeth Ashley as the unransomed wife. Oh -- Kay Lenz was Thursday. Open thread. Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 24, 2012 10:04 PM

Too general for me to find a handle. Maybe someone else can scope it out.

We Own The Night

161 "I want to swap chairs at the makeup table."

Chu Chu -- Carol Burnett in *Chu Chu and the Philly Flash* (1981)

Correct, skipper. I took my son to see this when he was five years old -- his first theatrical film, and he enjoyed it. A couple of years later, on spotting a bow & arrow set in at toy store, he found out for the first time (from the display package) that Robin Hood was supposed to have been folks and not a fox. skipper's thread.