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- From: rj@cadre.com (Rob deFriesse)
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- Subject: Re: Need Help With Movie Title.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.133535.26557@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:35:35 GMT
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- david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:
- :
- : Can anyone help me in tracking down the name of a movie I once saw.
- :
- : It was a comedy about a WWI pilot who has the role of the "detective/
- : hero" in the film and has the task of tracking down a prefessor who is
- : kidnapped by german spies. As he goes on his search, he is helped by
- : the professors daughter.
- :
- : At one stage, the "hero" has a rowing 8 contest where his entire team
- : misses the start because they are all ill. Anyway, he takes on the
- : other team single handed, winning by a boat length without even
- : raising a bit of sweat while the opposing team is completely
- : buggered.
- :
- : The movie is directed as though it is an old movie where the "hero"
- : always managers to overcome every obstacle which he faces looking as
- : though its all in a days work.
- :
- : Billy Connelly plays a blind scotsman who served with the "hero"
- : during the war and lost his eyesight when the "hero" got him to look
- : down a rabbits hole full of ammo using a match for light.
- :
- : Any help with the title of this film would be appreciated.
- :
- : thanks in advanced.
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- Sounds like "Bullshot" to me. I think that's the title. The character's name
- is Bullshot Crummond, or something like that. I also think it was produced by
- George Harrison. Great movie!
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