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The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Interesting Comment
I just caught this on TCM. It's a stretch in acting for Wayne, I think. He rarely did characters with flaws, either physical or mental.But he does a great job.
Did anyone catch a wonderful comment made by Wayne while he and the naval staff were watching films of the carriers being bombed? Wayne is commenting that the solution to the Navy's problem is obvious, but it is eluding him. There is some banter about how to get your thinking going when it's at a standstill. That is, how to get into action when things seem unworkable. Wayne comments, "In Hollywood we'd stop and look around and here's the 7th cavalry coming." All things considered, I thought it a great comment!
Clash by Night (1952)
"Clash by Night"
I thought it interesting that the title, "Clash By Night," is taken from a famous poem. The poem is by Matthew Arnold and is titled, "Dover Beach." The plot of the poem is this guy (the poet)talking to his "love" on the coast of England. The sound of the sea and other such images are given. (All this, of course, fits in wonderfully with the movie, its locale, images and so forth.)
Here are the lines: Ah, love, let us be true to one another....for
We are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
I don't know who came up with the title, Odets, Lang, or whoever. But it fits this movie. "Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean, and it brought into his mind the turbid ebb and flow of human misery."