Ladies & Gentlemen: Happy Fourth!

("Thomas Borchert" wrote)
A landing at Berlin-Tempelhof, the "mother of all airports" (Sir Norman
Foster), well known from Billy Wilders' movie (can't remember the title)
will cost you 100 $ - but it is worth it.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697/
Billy Wilder

Is this the film? Dad always liked this one, when it came on TV.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/
One, Two, Three (1961)
James Cagney

Speaking of German born Directors...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943758/
William Wyler isn't bad either :-)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943758/bio
Interesting biography of Wyler.

(Not a bad run g)

The Heiress (1949)
Thunderbolt (1947)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Mrs Miniver (1942)

"In June of 1944 he permanently lost the hearing in his right ear while
filming a bombing mission from a B-17."

Trivia for: The Fighting Lady (1944)
The film follows the WWII exploits of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS
Yorktown (CV-10) (unidentified in the film), in its first major operations
following its commissioning in 1943.

"In the scene of a strafing mission against the Japanese-held island of
Truk, one of the figures seen running for cover is an American POW.
According to his autobiography, that prisoner was Maj. 'Gregory H. 'Pappy'
Boyington' , the highest-scoring U.S. Marine pilot of the war, who had been
shot down a few months before in the Solomon Islands."

"...was an assistant director on the original Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925) and 34 years later directed its remake, Ben-Hur (1959)."

"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up
new ways of getting on and off a horse."


Montblack

Montblack,

Is this the film? Dad always liked this one, when it came on TV.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/
One, Two, Three (1961)

Yep, that's the one. Couldn't imagine that the title was translated to German
literally, so I didn't dare translate it back.

Speaking of German born Directors...

Well, as with so many German scientists, artists et cetera working in the US,
they were mostly of course Jews that had fled Germany because of the Nazis.
The intellectual loss to Germany was immense, of course. The Barbarians ruled.
And the majority of Germans supported them. Sad.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)