Wing and a Prayer Page #3

Synopsis: An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at their avoidance of combat, for reasons unknown to them. But in the end, all get their chance to fight.
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1944
97 min
158 Views


for the scene to be shot.

We took our places.

She was wearing the most beautiful

black negligee.

Lovely...

revealing.

Her hair was swept back

from her forehead.

Her eyes

were partly closed.

I took her

into my arms...

Go on.

Kiss her, you dope!

The hairdresser yelled,

"You're mussing up

her hairdo."

The director screamed, " Move your arm.

You're tilting her collar."

The cameraman said,

"I can't see her nose."

So I kissed her off-center

and smacked the air.

If you want

to kiss a girl right,

you got

to join the navy.

Hey! You can't

get away with that!

Hey! Hey! Gather 'round.

I want

to tell you something.

Your worries are over.

Listen to the voice

of Superman.

I'll tell you what

I'm going to do.

I'll fly my TBF

clear to Tokyo.

Throw a rope

around Tojo's neck,

like I roped coyotes

back in Texas.

I'll drag that

monkey to 15,000 feet

and drop him

like a bomb...

Very funny.

I wouldn't want

to bore you guys

with what I'm

really going to do.

It sure takes

a load off our minds.

That guy there

might possibly give you

a few pointers.

He's only shot down

three Zeros.

I'm just a bag of wind

from Texas.

I must sound funny

to a guy who's done

the things you've done.

How do you feel

when those meatballs

come at you?

I didn't see them

until they were

pretty close.

Did they attack

from above?

From below.

They missed

with their frst pass.

They say they can attack,

pull out,

and dive again

before you see them.

Slow but with

maneuverability?

I don't know, really...

They machine-gun you

on the way down?

I'm writing my memoirs

for the Saturday Evening Post.

You can read them

after the war.

All right.

Break it up.

Let's cut a record.

Hey, you want me

to make another one?

I could knock that moon

out of the sky.

Leave it alone.

I'll need that moon

when I get home.

Right on the beam, kid.

What's your name?

Benjamin K. O'Neal,

sir.

Aviation radioman,

frst class.

Did you come in

with Torpedo Five?

That's right, sir.

Haven't you served

under me before?

I was in and out

of Pensacola, sir.

I thought I'd

seen you before.

As you were.

# Bring back #

# Bring back

my Bonny to me #

#To me... ##

What's wrong, Benny?

I've been ducking him

since I came on board.

If he fgures how long

ago he saw me,

he'll ground me sure.

How come?

Too old

for air combat duty.

Are you kidding?

There's no law...

That man's

the whole navy

in one pair of pants.

Do you know what

kind of guy he is?

He's the only offcer whose men

wouldn't give him a nickname.

What's the matter?

What if he

fnds out about me?

What about you?

Benny, how old

would you take me to be?

Oh, I'd say

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Jerome Cady

Jerome Cady (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943), a successful adaptation of Forever Amber (1947) and the police procedural Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wing and a Prayer in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the Los Angeles Record, before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc. as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.. more…

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