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...every one of them has an ulcer inside." "Jungle Sam" Katzman probably will never have either an Oscar or an ulcer. He specializes in such surefire blends of sex and adventure as Serpent of the Nile and Battle of Rogue River, plus a stream of quickies for the cap-pistol set (Chief of the Senecas, Jet Commandos), and a seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half a million dollars on a film, and in 21 years of producing he has not made a single picture that lost money...
...dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want to live forever?") had its echoes...
Watts: ". . . Obviously Falstaff was intended as the answer, and I think there is considerable doubt that millions 'the world over' ever found Pistol endearing . . . What is a matter of fact is that he is 'a cowardly braggart' and that he does possess 'good humor' and 'some wit,' and certainly appears in all the required plays. So it seems to me the Pistol couple have...
Hampden: "I must judge you wrong in saying a character can appear in a play without making an appearance on stage . . . The question was wrongly put, hence confusing because it included an error. The answer was half right because Pistol is a cowardly braggart. The true answer . . . is that there is no such character. I suggest the show bear the penalty of its error and give the young couple $500 for a correct answer to half the question...
...prison walls quite unnoticed, and without religious comfort." He once witnessed the execution of an 18-year-old boy condemned by a military court. When the soldiers in the firing squad deliberately shot over the boy's head, the prison governor rushed up to kill him with his pistol. "I am not responsible," the governor shrieked at the priest, "I do as I am ordered...