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"Breaker Morant" is by no means a B Movie, it is one of the 100 best movies of all Time !!!!
For Papa books, my Favorites are "The Green Hills of Africa" and "The Old Man and the Sea". And I am not really a Hemingway when it comes to writing. Faulkner and Wolfe had him beat.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
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Yes it is. I used the term B because I thought it was in Black and White- sure showed the pompous "Sandhurst" Officer Corps mentality of the Brits then. Morant was a Leftenant from Australia- skilled at breaking horses but was just like a junior officer in our Army in WW11- if you didn't come from the "Long Grey Line" you maybe retired a Major- West Pointers fared better, as "Ike", Bradley, Patton, Mark Clark and Doug MacArthur were all "Westies" RHIP--
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Thanks George. There's a small M&P bookstore in the burg near our deer hunting camp will look for both the movie and the book you mentioned. Went back to re-read "A Deer For Cholly Dorman" last night- Charles Nicholson, a Southern Gentleman like yourself Sir- he must be a fan of that book as well- he describes Boss Bishop's daughter Dianne Perril Bishop as sitting in a chair with a Springer Spaniel on her lap, reading Hmeingway's "Islands In The Stream". George C. Scott- my kind of actor. Patton, yes indeed, but my favorite- a Black and White B movie "The List of Adrian Messenger" a Brit based WW11 espionage film- great stuff.
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Later in that book he writes about dispatching a favorite aging horse "Old Kite" in the American West, then leaving the carcass to bait eagles- and later dispatching a Bald Eagle (very protected species by the way) with a .22 Winchester- and running down the wounded bird, crasping it by the legs and smacking its head against a rock- how did he ever get away with a Federal crime like that I wonder? As stated, it was very likely not a Bald Eagle, but a Golden Eagle which were not protected at that point in time. I don't believe they were protected until sometime in the '60s.
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You are right, I went back and re-read it, it was NOT a Bald Eagle- I just assumed all the Eagles were protected- what strikes me as strange, if it was legal then to shoot a Golden Eagle and then sell the feathers to the area Indians (as EH apparently did) why use a .22 and then run a wounded one down and grap its legs-- I'd sooner go 15 rounds as a sparring partner for Mike Tyson on a day when he is really pissed off, not just moderately pissed off.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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"Patton" . . . when Omar Bradley saw that movie, he was said to have remarked that he wasn't sure whether he was watching George Scott or George Patton. High tribute to an actor, I'd say.
Martha Gellhorn was somewhat miffed with Papa during WWII because she was a REAL reporter (without, of course, his reputation) but had great difficulty getting anywhere near the action. Meanwhile, Papa got to liberate a hotel in Paris.
Jack Hemingway's account of meeting his father's 4th wife is hilarious. It was down in Cuba, and Papa said, "Go down to the pool and meet your new stepmother." So Jack walks up behind her. She's wrapped in a towel. She turns around, and it seems the towel was all she was wearing. "Uh . . . hi, mom!"
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I heard he gave a 6,5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer to Castro and also that it's now on display at Hemmingway's Cuban home, which has since been made into a museum.
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Yes, Hemmingway's Mann.-Sch. is leaning on the wall in one of the rooms inside his house-museum in Cuba. - Jani
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I can't knock Hemingway. He was a great writer. Gellhorn was a great reporter and, I believe, a better person.
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King, as usual, has it exactly correct.
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