Gulliver
- Episode aired Dec 6, 1966
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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YOUR RATING
Wounded Littlejohn becomes a modern Gulliver.Wounded Littlejohn becomes a modern Gulliver.Wounded Littlejohn becomes a modern Gulliver.
Rick Jason
- Lt. Hanley
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAs the Messerschmitt is strafing Littlejohn, he is running toward the camera with the plane coming after him. Reminiscent of the scene in North By Northwest when Cary Grant is chased by a plane.
- GoofsWhen the 3 German soldiers come to the boat the get Littlejohn, 2 of them are killed by a mine under a wooden plank. The German sergeant, Paul Bush again, runs up to the boat but uses no caution, in case there are other mines.
Featured review
Vic spotlights Littlejohn
Vic directed this vehicle for his regular squad member Litttlejohn, who stars opposite a cast of child actors. It's an unusual episode, not related to the ordinary patrol segments.
Littlejohn is wounded by fire from a German aircraft, and on his own is captured by a band of young children who have been left orphaned by bombings. They tie up the tall soldier, creating a resemblance to Gulliver of the Jonathan Swift tale.
The kids rob the belongings of dead soldiers from both armies and have a quest to someday find a new life together (after the war). They are straight out of "Lord of the Flies", unsympathetic on the surface as they refuse to give Littlejohn food, water or medical help.
It's a story with its own, very downbeat sense of hopelessness, with Vic getting natural, underplayed performances for the ensemble of children. They are led by child actor Stefan Arngrim (in a precociously villainous role), who grew up to star in the horror movie "Fear No Evil" in the 1980s and who is desperately in need of a REAL bio in IMDb, stuck without balance currently with just trivia listings about his attempted career as a musician written by some misguided sycophant.
Story has a macabre set of plot twists, in which the kids prove deadly, killing Germans after selling out Littlejohn to them, with our hero surviving strictly by luck. The amorality of the kids is alarming (a la "Flies") but a little girl among them proves to be honorable.
Littlejohn is wounded by fire from a German aircraft, and on his own is captured by a band of young children who have been left orphaned by bombings. They tie up the tall soldier, creating a resemblance to Gulliver of the Jonathan Swift tale.
The kids rob the belongings of dead soldiers from both armies and have a quest to someday find a new life together (after the war). They are straight out of "Lord of the Flies", unsympathetic on the surface as they refuse to give Littlejohn food, water or medical help.
It's a story with its own, very downbeat sense of hopelessness, with Vic getting natural, underplayed performances for the ensemble of children. They are led by child actor Stefan Arngrim (in a precociously villainous role), who grew up to star in the horror movie "Fear No Evil" in the 1980s and who is desperately in need of a REAL bio in IMDb, stuck without balance currently with just trivia listings about his attempted career as a musician written by some misguided sycophant.
Story has a macabre set of plot twists, in which the kids prove deadly, killing Germans after selling out Littlejohn to them, with our hero surviving strictly by luck. The amorality of the kids is alarming (a la "Flies") but a little girl among them proves to be honorable.
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- Nov 2, 2023
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