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Other than the obvious dramatic necessity, Why didn't he say these things before he died? I'll grant the conversation with his wife would be difficult, but put that aside for a moment.
Why not tell Mildred that he thought the billboards were a good idea? Why not tell her the investigation was tearing him up? Why allow her to think he didn't care for so long?
Why not have the conversation with Dixon? He is a troublesome employee, causing all kinds of problems, and Willoughby totally ignores the issues until after he kills himself. He could have had that conversation in less time than it took to hand write a 3 or 4 page letter. If Willoughby is such a good man, why not do something while he was alive, and not leave letters to be opened after his death? I've known for several years that you are hurting and need help, but I ignore it so there can be a dramatic post death reveal.
Regarding his wife, he couldn't tell her he was planning suicide, but he could have had a conversation with his wife about do not resuscitate orders.
I realize it is a plot device, but not a brilliant one in my opinion.
According to Jean Arthur, Hawkes wanted her to say the "Just Whistle" line in Only Angels have Wings, but she refused, thinking it was cheesy. Hawkes claimed it would make her a star. Years later when Jean saw Becall do it ( and become a big star) in To Have and have not, she called or wrote Hawkes and said you were right and I was wrong. I guess Hawkes had some sentimental attachment to that line.
Doolittle used B 25's twin engined medium bombers. B 25 were 4 engined heavy bombers, and too big to fly off a carrier. But yes, they did launch planes against Tokoyo. At the time FDR stated the planes (B 25s are land based) that they were launched from a secret base "Shangra La" (From the movie Lost Horizon) Later in the war, the Navy christened an aircraft Carrier USS Shangra La.
They fought back, but had limited means. Despite receiving a Dec 3/4 cable stating,"Consider this a War warning" most of the base was not on war alert. This meant limited staffing, guns and ammunition were locked away, aircraft were not fueled and armed etc. I believe two P 40's were launched, but did not have the success depicted in the movie. Most of the ships did not have steam up and therefore had limited ability to manuver. eventually, lockers and magazines were opened or broken into and some sort of defense organized, but it too a while.
Sure is a Hannie Caulder remake, but without Robert Culp. Hannie was a remake of Nevada Smith but with Raquel Welch instead of Steve Macqueen
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There are two points that Biegler makes in an understated way: "your a little late, but maybe the court will over look that" and something like "The fact that you want a psychiatric exam will convince the jury that you think the insanity defense is valid". I think Dancer was hoping to "slide one by" Biegler, knowing the local prosecutor has messed up. He was hoping that the upper penninsula defense attorney was as much of a yokel as the prosecutor. Finding that he wasn't he dropped the request, as 1) he would loose, and 2) it we re-enforce the defense's case.
Thus the judge's wry comment, "end of skirmish". So in effect, the prosecution missed the window for requesting the examination. The court could only grant it if the defense agrees, which Biegler will not, so the motion is pointless
In the early part of the 20th century, most reservations had an 'Indian School", usually run by missionaries. The idea was to "Kill the Indian, save the man" as Henry says in season 1. The indian schools were trying to eradicate native culture and americanize the indians, so they could assimilate. The Indian Schools discouraged the use of contractions, mostly for character building reasons. The time line of the show is a bit confused. In the first book, Henry and Walt served together in Vietnam, which would make them much older than they are, but does sort of explain the TransAm and Bronco, in an Archer type of time line. Anyway, I believe that Henry is a product of an indian School, and that is why he has the contractionless speech pattern.
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it seems to me that Ethan found Lucy, raped and badly mutilated. He wrapped her in his coat and buried her. I always took the digging in the sand and Ethan thinking he was about to be sick, and digging a hole so he could cover it. The boys asking if he wanted water, confirms it , in my mind. It is John Ford's way of implying that what ever happened was so disgusting, it made John Wayne sick to his stomach. The don't ever ask me speech indicates Ethan is having a tough time handling it, and the boys wouldn't be able to handle it at all.
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