Reminds me of an old "Sherlock Holmes" movie, starring Basil Rathbone
which was made either just before the war or early on.
The title was "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon". A Swiss
inventor is spirited out of the way of the Nazis and brought to England
by Holmes. His invention is a new bomb sight which is duly installed in
a RAF bomber.
When closeups were shown of the inventor operating the sight, the "bomb
sight" was a photographic enlarger. Apparently to save a few bucks
(pounds sterling) the producers just went into the dark room at the
studio and let the co-star play with the enlarger.
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 08:34:44 -0800 Paul.Kile@Aerojet.com (KILE, PAUL D)
writes:
>Lawrie,
>I don't know about P-51s making it to the stars, but lots of stars
>made
>it to P-51s (such as Clark Gable, Don DeFore, etc. in all those WW!!
>flicks!)
>
>One "airplane" that made it into space was shown in this awful movie
>on
>the Sci-Fi Channel last week. The movie setting is a base on the Moon,
>with the usual murder plot going on. The folks in the white hats
>manage
>to escape at the last minute in a "space shuttle", just before a
>dematerializing bomb takes out the base. The "space shuttle" interior
>looked suspiciously like a Boeing 707 simulator, complete with the
>flight engineer's panel!
>
>Nothing can escape my trivial gaze!
>
>Cheers, PK
>
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