"Thanks! I Needed That!"

[Joel S. Berson]

But is the search for slap + literal dialogue "Thanks! I Needed
That!"?  Has that actually been found?  (I didn't see it flash by.)

Joel

At 8/24/2010 02:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>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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> > Poster:       Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: "Thanks! I Needed That!"
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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.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > 02:00:32,520 --> 02:00:33,509
> > Robert Stack: Dan?
> >
> > 02:00:34,360 --> 02:00:35,349
> > John Wayne: Yeah?
> >
> > 02:00:36,280 --> 02:00:37,395
> > Robert Stack: Thanks.
> >
> > 02:00:38,360 --> 02:00:41,113
> > Robert Stack: Thanks for knocking some sense into my head.
> >
> > 02:00:41,760 --> 02:00:44,399
> > Robert Stack: Someday I'll explain.
> > John Wayne: You don't have to.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
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> > > Poster:       "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > > Subject:      Re: "Thanks! I Needed That!"
> > >
> >
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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)."
> > >
> > > Fred Shapiro
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> > Garson O'Toole [adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM]
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:19 PM
> > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: "Thanks! I Needed That!"
> > >
> > >  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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