Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Would Die. There was always the chance that the rebels were bluffing. But a battalion of 600 crack Belgian paratroopers was loaded aboard U.S. C-130 turboprop transports at Belgium's Diest airbase, flown to a little-used U.S. military base on Ascension Island, a British outpost in the South Atlantic only six air hours from Stanleyville. If necessary for humanitarian reasons, the Belgian government later announced, the paratroopers would be dropped on Stanleyville...
...care of my garden," Parker harrumphs. "He was a lousy gardener. I hope he'll make a better president." Obviously, the wind of change wafts through this tart topical melodrama, an updated version of the old favorite about a group of decent, civilized folk marooned in a jungle outpost among hordes of savages. They no longer sing Rule, Britannia! Even the comforting strains of There'll Always Be an England are but dimly heard, and the tribal chieftains have evolved into smartly uniformed officers with English accents and political ambitions...
ZULU. A bloody good show based on a historical incident that occurred in 1879: the siege of a British outpost by 4.000 African tribesmen...
ZULU. A bloody good show based on a historical incident that occurred in 1879: the siege of a British outpost by 4,000 African tribesmen...
Station Six-Sahara. Not again. Not a re-re-re-release of that steamy old Lustspiel about several hairy males marooned in an outpost with Jean Harlow. No, this time it's different. This time several hairy males are marooned in an outpost with Carroll Baker. But never mind. Carroll doesn't turn up till the show's almost half over, and till she does it's pretty interesting...