"BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI"

Swiss Mustangs · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:10 am

In the final segment, Forney's helicopter takes off with the number 3 but arrives at the rescue scene with no number.

Martin

DiggerWW2 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:19 am

We had a Summer House in Ocean City, NJ years ago. Grace Kelly was one of Our Neighbors. Ah, Those were the days....

Digger

Django · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:31 am

As a kid, that was the first movie I saw where the main characters get killed. It freaked me out. To this day whenever I happen to catch it, it still bothers me a little. Great movie.

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:35 am

I watched it with my wife one time and to this day she swears it scared her. It is know as "That movie the main character dies in the end".

Some time I need to re-buy he DVD for that movie, lost comtact with the Friends I let barrow it.

Tim

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:44 am

Great stuff...love the movie!
For the time, the model work done by the Lydecker brothers was suberb. (except for the F9F almost hitting "Tilly" the deck crane)
When I first saw the movie in the early 1970's, I thought they actually flew aircraft down by full sized bridges and shot stuff at them!
Up to that time, it was some of the best model work done on film.
Their trick was to build outdoor sets and use sunlight and real mountains as back drops. Speilberg did similar work for "Always", only with bigger aircraft models.

Jerry

BK · **Joined:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:23 pm **Posts:** 597

Django wrote:

As a kid, that was the first movie I saw where the main characters get killed. It freaked me out. To this day whenever I happen to catch it, it still bothers me a little. Great movie.

Holden agreed to do the movie only if they followed the book's ending where his character dies.

BK

Broken-Wrench · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:37 pm **Posts:** 1197

If he would have lived he would have become a lifer PPric just like the admiral! His wife would have left him, he would have become a drunk and his daughters would have gone wild and caught coins on the sheet river during the day and worked in the bars at night in subic!!

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:07 pm

Broken-Wrench wrote:

If he would have lived he would have become a lifer PPric just like the admiral! His wife would have left him, he would have become a drunk and his daughters would have gone wild and caught coins on the sheet river during the day and worked in the bars at night in subic!!

How True is that!

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