NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/arts/movies/36408

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From: [e-mail] (Mark R. Leeper)
Subject: Re: anybody else remember this film?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:59:43 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (T.M.Haddock) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
> |> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Jamison RD AC) writes:
> |> There was anothe movie whose title I don't remember with Sophia Loren
> |> and Kirk Douglas about a high ranking American Army oficer, Billy Mitchell,
> |> who emigrated to Israel just before Israeli independence.  John Wayne also
> |> made about two brief appearences.
>
>   It was  CAST A GIANT SHADOW
>
>   Frank Sinatra also had a small part in it as a pilot who puts a seltzer
>   bottle to creative use.
>
>
>  TRAVIS

The film that was originally asked for is most likely JUDITH.  Frank
Maloney has already answered that.  I will point out that the Army
officer that fought for Israel was David "Mickey" Marcus.  He was a
WWII hero in the American army.  He was a division commander and
attended the "Big Five" meetings in 1943.  He volunteered for the
D-Day airborne assault and parachuted into Normandy.  He helped to
oversee the military government in Germany after VE-Day.  He got the
Distnguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star, and various British
decorations.

The film covers the post-war period when Marcus was recruited by the
Hagganah and in January, 1948 he smuggled himself into Palestine
where he helped set up military training for the state trying to come
into existence.  On June 11, 1948, during the War of Independence he
made the fatal mistake of forgetting his own password and was killed
by his own troops.

Billy Mitchell enlisted in the Army in WWI, rose to the rank of
Brigadier General and organied the expeditionary army air force.
After the war he became a very outspoken advocate of military air and
strategic bombing power.  It rose to the point that his superiors
considered to be insubordination and he was court martialled in 1925,
found guilty, and eventually resigned from the army.  In WWII, most
of his ideas were adopted.


                Mark Leeper
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