"Thanks! I Needed That!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Great work, Garson.

Incredible that two novels, both published early in 1953 (Uris's by
Putnam and Gann's by Sloane), contain similar melodramatic scenes.

JL
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I have now seen the video and can verify the dialog. The character Dan
> Roman played by John Wayne double slaps the character John Sullivan
> played by Robert Stack. The film then switches to scenes depicting
> other characters, e.g., the pilots in a chaser plane and people on the
> ground tracking the plane who speak some lines of the script.
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> John Wayne then speaks to the Coast Guard on the radio. Robert Stack
> next engages in an internal monologue. Several script lines are
> delivered by Stack, but they represent his thoughts and are not spoken
> aloud to other characters. When Stack finally does speak aloud for the
> first time after the slap he says:
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> 02:00:32,520 --> 02:00:33,509
> Robert Stack: Dan?
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> 02:00:34,360 --> 02:00:35,349
> John Wayne: Yeah?
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> 02:00:36,280 --> 02:00:37,395
> Robert Stack: Thanks.
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> 02:00:38,360 --> 02:00:41,113
> Robert Stack: Thanks for knocking some sense into my head.
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> 02:00:41,760 --> 02:00:44,399
> Robert Stack: Someday I'll explain.
> John Wayne: You don't have to.
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> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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> > Garson's information seems to confirm what I found in an Amazon.com
> review of the film, which says: "Myth: when slapped, Robert Stack never says
> 'Thanks. I needed that' (watch the movie for the actual line)."
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> > Fred Shapiro
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> Garson O'Toole [adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:19 PM
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> > Subject: Re: "Thanks! I Needed That!"
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> >  Ben Zimmer wrote
> >> In the clips of "The High and the Mighty" I can find on YouTube, John
> >> Wayne slaps Robert Stack in the cockpit and mutters "Get a hold of
> >> yourself, you yellow..." But there's no expression of gratitude from
> >> Stack immediately after:
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVvIqclEMM
> >> (trailer, scene starts about 2 minutes in)
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnrTq9Y-uJY
> >> (just the cockpit scene)
> >>
> >> It's possible that Stack thanks Wayne a bit later, after the clip that
> >> shows up in the trailer.
> >
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