sullymangolf

I have always enjoyed this movie for many different reasons. One thing that people may not know about this movie is that it first was going to be about the Army and not the Marines. Clint's band of misfits were supposed to be Army Rangers. When Clint approached the Army for assistance they didn't want any part of it. The Army's "Be All You Can Be" image may get tattered. So Clint approached the Marines and they were glad to help him with his movie. I believe in the movie the Sergeant Major is in the bar looking at old pictures and telling the corporal about "Heart Break Ridge" and mention was made about he and Clint being in this battle as Army soldiers before they joined the USMC. In the Marines they have special units of Recon and Force Recon that are similar to Army Ranger and Army Special Forces units. So it became a Recon unit for the story. In real life it was the Rangers who freed the medical students at the campus from the Cuban soldiers. So this is why Clint tried to enlist the Army's help. With the current world climate today I am sure the Army would help Clint make his movie today. Anyway it was a good action movie with comic relief and a few different story lines working together at one time. Worth the rent.

Finally I have found out the name of this movie! I have been trying to remember it for almost 40 + years. We were stationed at the US military base in Keflavik, Iceland in 1965-66. I remember being about 11 years old and going to the base theater to see this flick. It was very eerie. I saw this film about 3 or 4 times as it played over our time stationed in Keflavik. It was a scary movie for a kid back in those days. I remember a scene where one of the robots went into a bedroom where someone was hiding in the closet. The robot left before the person was found. It was an intense scene back in the day. Today I probably wouldn't think it so. Now that I have found the name of this flick I have to get a copy of it for old time's sake!

We were stationed at Saufley Field NAS in Pensacola, Florida from 1962-64. Dad was a Navy pilot and I liked all things military. I was 9-11 years old when we lived in Pensacola. I don't remember this show being on Wednesday night. I remember it came on Sunday mornings at 11 or 11:30 because our family would usually go to Mass at the base chapel at noon. I would only get a chance to see part of the show. If we attended services out at the Main Base at 5:30 I would get to watch the whole show. The only episode I remember is the one where 3 astronauts were walking around the moon and had only a little oxygen left in their tanks. They had a reserve tank but it needed a wrench to get it open and usable. Well one man had the wrench but it was inside his spacesuit. By the end of the show he had saved the others by opening his space suit (sacrificing himself) and getting the wrench. I remember the colonel talking with the hero's son on earth telling what a hero his dad was. Soon we would be off to Keflavik, Iceland and a new adventure. I never saw the show again, but I do have good memories of it.