Just finished watching "1941"

207,

Usually when I'm one of the very few laughing at a movie I get a jab in the ribs from my wife. I can't help it if the joke "went over their heads"! In regard to your favorite quote, my Dad always used to say. "Get up! It's daylight in the swamp!".

I watch it as often as I can and I always find something I missed previously. Probably because I was laughing too hard and it slipped my attention. When the wife and I go to the movies we find that most of the time we are the only ones laughing at a joke or prat fall. We are certain that 80% of ALPENA, Mi does not have a sense of humor.

You are all correct. This one of the funniest movies of it's time. The problem with the critics was that they didn't know it was humor. To me the more out rageous something is the funnier it is. My favorite scene, Kelso barrel rolling the P-40 down Hollywood Blvd. I wish Belushie had lived long enough to make some more good movies like that one. Keep em flying
Fred Amos

QUOTE: Originally posted by didfaI OK, I've looked for the movie on DVD and can't find it. Seems my company only has it on VHS. Flash me those digits, please.

I have two 1941 dvds, if you'd like, I could give it to you if you pay for postage

great movie,i really liked the part where kelso landed at the gas station.also love p40's i built chinese and british versions from the monogram kit.if you build the p40 from the movie i would love to see the pictures.

Love that movie and own the DVD.I recently bought the Revell 1941 P-40 warhawk model off of Ebay for about $10.

Best scenes:

The opening with Wild Bill smashing coke bottle and gargling it.

The B-17 cockpit with woman in red dress

and the two guys on watch on ferris wheel when after the older guy tells the nerd to shut up,out pops the dummy dressed as the old guy.....bahahaha,then he drops his cigar.

Hell what do critics know they liked Titanic. 1941 was a great movie lots of good people in it

OK, I've looked for the movie on DVD and can't find it. Seems my company only has it on VHS. Flash me those digits, please.

OK, I've looked for the movie on DVD and can't find it. Seems my company only has it on VHS. Flash me those digits, please.

My favorite scene is the AA battery going through the house. I also like the couple stranded on the Ferris Wheel. FUNNY STUFF !

One of my favorite movies!! that and stripes. John, we miss you!!

"Did I hit him?!"
"Almost."

It always cracks me up when he's trying to load his shotgun to shoot at the sub. Who throws the shells at the breach like that?

demono69

Hey TCAP - My Uncle Bob who used to work at the "Cradle" as a volunteer, told me that that P-40 was a fiberglass mockup originally made for Tora, Tora, Tora and then used for 1941. It looks very good until you get close a see its rough exterior texture.

By the way, do plan on attending the L.I.A.R.S. Model Car Challenge (Nov 15) and/or the Long Island Miniature Model Show (Nov 22)? Both at the Freeport Recreation Center.

Pete

QUOTE: Originally posted by deathbringer00 Next time your watching it take a look during the big brawl in the street, when a car goes through the window of an Italian restaurant, the guy eating spaghetti, I swear looks like John B. dressed up in his old guy SNL costume.

It was him. He supposedly had a few bit parts like that throughout the whole flick, although that's the only one I've seen. I think I once read that he's somewhere in the USO club, too. I dunno fersher, though...


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"You"

"YOU!"

"YOU!!"

"You... have a serious wardrobe problem, kid."


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I hate eggs, I can't stand eggs.

Anybody catch how their color coded threat warning system strangely resembles our color coded threat warning system?

ok..when i saw it I was dating a tall redhead who decided that night to wear this nasty low cut black danskin outfit..I had to choose between the movie and that..how unfair!(so i went back two night later and saw it(the movie)..that p40 by the way sat in the Mitchell field musem(now the Cradle of Aviation museum)for years...it was not a real p40..it was all scratchbuilt!!!!!!!!!!..I was appalled!!!!!!!!!!it sure looked like a real p40..(well thats what the sign said in front of the plane).

I had my mom drop me off by myself when I was 10 for the matinee. I dont think any war movie's come close as far as great one liners with the exception of Kelly's Heroes or Full Metal Jacket. Heck I put it on for background noise when I'm doing something round the house. I think the diorama t do would be the P-40 fillin up at the gas station. Next time your watching it take a look during the big brawl in the street, when a car goes through the window of an Italian restaurant, the guy eating spaghetti, I swear looks like John B. dressed up in his old guy SNL costume.
My favorites:

"Real Japs?"
"No, little wooden ones cheetah."

"Look a baby wolf"
"Where?"

"Is that a Winchester?"
"I got me a winchester, leever action"

"LOOK OUT, HE'S GOT A LEG!"

"You should never put a clip of ammunition down into the feed rollers, here."

"Safety bar, we don't need no safety bar."

"let me hear your guns"

and of course who could forget-

"WE SURE AS HELL DIDN'T START THIS WAR BUT BY GOD WE'RE GOING TO FINISH IT"

T.L.


"THIS IS MY GRACELAND!"

The best scene (to me) had to have been Wild Bill Kelso chasing his runaway P-40 down the road, .45 blazing in the air as the gas station exploded behind him.

I agree - time to go DVD shopping!

GET THE DVD... Lot's of deleted scenes put back in!

Just for the record, tigerman wrote:

QUOTE: I thought Dan Ackroyd was pretty funny as the demented tank commander.

Ackoyd and his crew weren't tankers. They were motor pool staff. They just jumped in a tank and took off!

Yeah, Scooter, I should have added a DVD drive when I ordered this toy of mine, but at the time it never entered my mind that I could use it for more than just watching flicks.

But I still would like to get my hands on some studio stills, without paying and arm and a leg on evilBay...


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Hey Blackwolf,

If you have a DVD-ROM in your PC, then you have all the stills you want. You can pause the movie just short of the scene you want, step up to the scene one frame at a time and get a screen print. I did this to get some reference photos for the A-26 Invader in 'Always'.

Brilliant film!!!!If you're playing IL-2 Forgotten Battles by ubi soft,you can download a "skin" and a Belushi pilot for the P-40.The "skin" is a "paint job", in other words.I might just try it and have low level wild ride through Moscow!

"Madness! Sheer Madness!"
"Herb, the dummies right..., it is one of ours"
"Look, I'm a bug"
"Let me tell you Mr. Hinney Kraut, we fought your kind in the Great War, and we kicked the living S*&! out of you. Over There, Over There, send the word..."
...."Japs parachuting into the Palmona alfalfa fields. Well it's my fault for assigning him there."
The more I think of it, the more I love it.

Long time no hear Wild Bill. Great to have ya back partner
Flaps up, Mike

Personally, I though the film sucked...

Another scene I really like is when they go through the paint factory in "Lulubelle", break out the other side covered in yellow, red, blue and who knows what other colors and then tear through the neighboring turpentine factory, coming out the other side all nice clean and shiny.

One of the local shows here has a theme award this year for best movie subject, I believe there's a Tamiya M3 Lee calling my name...

One of my ambitions for some time now has been to build a diorama of the intersection with the USO club, movie theatre, Lulubelle and Wild Bill Kelso's P-40.

I need a source for still photos, though. My cousin works for Universal now so maybe I could get some good stills through her, but does anyone know where I can find good quality stills from this flick? There's really nothing good on the web that I've found so far, just some "eh" captures from the video.


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This could go on forever. I also liked the two guys on the ferriswheel, especially the doofus with the dummy who shoots down Wild Bill. Who couldn't forget the Japanese crewman who looks straight up at the naked girl bouncing on the periscope saying "Howwwywood! Howwwywood!" over and over as he's getting slapped by his commander. Also, General Stillwell sitting in the Dumbo movie sobbing during a scene of the movie. One line I do remember, "Take out those lights! Ok. Ok. I'm leaving to go buy the DVD.