[Milsurplus] Radio movies

Craig westerman at cableone.net
Mon Jul 18 22:55:45 EDT 2005


Island in the Sky - 1953
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=96788

Can't believe you didn't remember the Duke being in it. :-)
 
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  Craig
  westerman at cableone.net



  ======= telegrapher wrote:

  tan> I remember seeing a movie some years back where an airplane crashed in
tan> the Canadian wilderness or so hellish cold place anyway.  Don't remember
tan> any of the participants other than Andy Devine (from Kingman, AZ).  Lots
tan> of radio work going on and it might have been one of the movies 
tan> mentioned here.  Some of the descriptions about "using the last of the
tan> aircraft battery" rings a bell.  Andy was the pilot of the C-47 rescue
tan> aircraft and had no heater in the cockpit.  Wore a long fur coat i think
tan> and had a long stick of some sort that he could use to change settings
tan> on the control boxes overhead without taking his hands out of his pockets.

tan> ANyone remember that one?  It's been a long time since i've seen it so i
tan> don't remember any particular radio scenes.

tan> Larry
tan> W0OGH

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