Some weeks back a listmember asked about movies featuring paddling scenes & I responded with a WW II epic starring Mel Gibson and Sam Neill. I looked it up and here's the rest: "Attack Force Z" (1981, Austrailian-Taiwanese) Color-84 m. Dir: Tim Burstall; John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Hayward, John Waters; Taut little war drama; commandoes set out to rescue survivors of a plane crash on a Japanese-held island during WW II. ~ this from Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide He didn't have kind things to say about: "Cockleshell Heroes" (1956, British) Dir: Jose Ferrer Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley ; Saga of commandoes training...excitement never gells. They are both listed as being available on videotape. Ciao, ~Paul *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
> from Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide > >He didn't have kind things to say about: > >"Cockleshell Heroes" (1956, British) Dir: Jose Ferrer > >Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley ; Saga of commandoes >training...excitement never gells. > >They are both listed as being available on videotape. The movie may be bad - I've never seen it - but the book is quite stirring and interesting. Of twelve boaters who set out to attach limpet mines to German shipping, only four (if you count the two who never leave the submarine mother-ship due to a torn boat) live to see the end of the war. Along the way, they run several huge tide-races (at night!). The boats that survive this have to take the decision to abandon the swimmers from the sunken boats (and we think we have to make tough group dynamic calls!). No GPSs, no VHFs, no Gore-Tex drysuits, no paddle-floats - just guts and determination. The book is long out of print but you may find it at your library or used-book dealer. Well worth reading. N49°16' W123°08' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
> >The movie may be bad - I've never seen it - but the book is quite stirring and >interesting. Of twelve boaters who set out to attach limpet mines to German >shipping, only four (if you count the two who never leave the submarine >mother-ship due to a torn boat) live to see the end of the war. Along the way, One of the two was Blondie Hasler, who, with Francis Chichister, started the single-handed sailing race across the Atlantic in the early 60s. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Philip Torrens wrote: > >"Cockleshell Heroes" (1956, British) Dir: Jose Ferrer > > > >Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley ; Saga of commandoes > >training...excitement never gells. > > > >They are both listed as being available on videotape. > > The movie may be bad - I've never seen it - but the book is quite > stirring and interesting. Of twelve boaters who set out to attach limpet > mines to German shipping, only four (if you count the two who never > leave the submarine mother-ship due to a torn boat) live to see the end > of the war. Along the way, they run several huge tide-races (at night!). > The boats that survive this have to take the decision to abandon the > swimmers from the sunken boats (and we think we have to make tough group > dynamic calls!). No GPSs, no VHFs, no Gore-Tex drysuits, no > paddle-floats - just guts and determination. The book is long out of > print but you may find it at your library or used-book dealer. Well > worth reading. the parts i saw were amusing in someways, and pretty deep, as they were training. real life is never as exciting as the movies ;-) so... i'd watch it again, from start to finish, if i could. i saw it on the history channel, which lways had a disclaimer "not available in canada" -- we wondered if your history isn't the same as ours ;-) mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: Nothing pains some people more than having to think. --Martin Luther King, Jr. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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