flashback42
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Did they use the term "fifth column" or "fifth columnists"?
Etymology: Spanish Civil War. Paraphrase from a General Emilio Mola: "I have four columns of troops marching on Madrid. When the time is right, a fifth column inside the city will rise up and will aid them with the victory."
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Up and down in 10 Views, Miles. Upon the lad's return to his family it became a national headline case. Stockholm Syndrome: The boy and his captor had eventually formed a family type unit. He could be sent off to school, with no fear that he would try to escape. Things changed when he grew old enough to be beyond the preference of the abductor's fetish. He was asked to bring home younger friends for the man's benefit. Eventually, he walked into a police station and made the statement that serves as the movie's title. I thought that someone may remember the similar story with the title *The Face on the Milk Carton*.
Miles' thread
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Thanks. Actually my favorite take on that story is the 1996 American version entitled simply *Diabolique*. Sharon Stone has her points, and Isabelle Adjani is stunning. Next up:
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Late 1980s fact-based story addressing an emotional-reaction problem: Child abduction. A seven-year-old lad is kidnapped. He is away from his family for years, enduring repeated sexual abuse.
Competent casting, but no A-list names. The story carries it.
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There is no advancement or movement from this job, and their lives and careers are lived out in the course of this performance. Incidents in their family lives, an affair comes and goes, and they never advance or depart from this job.
These two performers are a married couple; worked together several times, and had full careers in seperate performances. Both TV and bigscreen.
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*Fuzz*
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That would be 1993's *House of Secrets*, I think. Stars Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner were married two years later.
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*A Simple Plan* (1998) would fit that discription. Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda, etc.
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Grad student headed for a Law degree takes a job typing up copy for an adversing firm. (Pre-computer era -- paper on a roller, an inked ribbon, and a ding! when the bar shifts back.)
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*147*
"I hate that angle! People wind up counting my nose hairs in LIFE Magazine!"
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Thanks. One I liked when I saw it in the early 1970s. TVM. 40 years go by on one interior set. Two characters.
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*147*
"Cut! Stand-in! Get my stand-in here!"
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Got a partial matchup here. Robert Blake as John List in *Judgement Day: The John List Story.* Released 23 February 1993. Beverly D'Angelo as the wife. Glitch: Carroll Baker in the role of Daughter Alma List is an Oscar nominee.
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This one has been mentioned before, some time in the last year or so; I waited for someone else to answer it. Episode The Little Black Bag, from the series *Rod Serling's Night Gallery*. Chill Wills and Burgess Meredith in the major roles. Even having some memory of it, I used up some time researching that series about a zone in the twilight.
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*146*
"CUT! That looked good, but everybody take a break for a while. We'll make a safety print after the sun rises and the fog burns off."
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Boomer, Bud (Sheriff) -- John Candy in *Canadian Bacon* (1995)
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*146*
"Ten bucks says we'll have a retake. I can tell from hear he's out of focus."
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Correct on all counts.
skipper's thread.
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At just over 80 Views.
The convict/cop turns down the offer of segregated confinement. He is in General Population, along with some people that he had arrested. No one tries to make friends with him, and he makes no such efforts. If he sits at a table, no one will join him. In the original one-hour episode, he sits with a chessboard, making player moves, and jotting down note on his progress.
In both the episode and the TVM versions, the stars are well-established actors with both TV and bigscreen credits. Both have TV series star credits on their resumes.
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uh, P.S. -- open thread.
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Seems to be no interest in this one; wrapping it up.
Preceeding was the spoken last line, and the typed first line of 1972's *Slaughterhouse-Five*.
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This series was brought about by a writer / producer who made a point of championing the cause of working police officers. He had a background in law enforcement himself, and he took on the task of speaking for the front-line cop.
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On a roll, skipper. Your thread.
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Correct at 65 Views. skipper's thread.
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"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
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Oswald, Lee Harvey -- Gary Oldman in *JFK* (1995)