"the finger" in 1932 Hollywood epic

[David Barnhart]

I was watching the military channel and saw a soldier along the roadside
"give the bird" to a soldier passing on a tank or in a truck.  The show,
I'm pretty sure, was dealing with WW2 and was genuine (not renenactment).

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> About three-fourths of the way through _The Lost Squadron_ (1932; dir.
> George Archainbaud), Robert Armstrong (later of _King Kong_) clearly and
> vigorously gives Richard Dix the finger from the cockpit of a biplane which
> has just been sabotaged by Erich von Stroheim.
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> Naturally I thought I was crazy, but with the help of the olde DVR I
> verified the gesture plus my sanity.  A reviewer at IMDb caught it as well,
> even though he calls the gesture "the bird":
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> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023151/reviews
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> I've never seen it elsewhere in a movie before ca1970.
>
> Otherwise the film wasn't real swell. Two stars.
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> JL
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