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Minor correction: <i>From Here to Eternity</i> was written by James Jones. <i>The Caine Mutiny</i> was written by Herman Wouk.
The sports teacher probably had good intentions. He wanted the fat boy to improve his physical condition. But he used poor judgement in forcing him to jump over the vault.
Denham is more like Gregory Miller in Blackboard Jungle (coincidentally played by Poitier in an early role), the rebellious student who develops respect for the teacher.
It's purpose was to motivate Major Reisman to help them escape that fate.
In the novel, it's never suggested that the plane crash was anything other than an accident.
It's just a plot device to add drama. The President loses a friend, and the evidence from Adm. Barnes is apparently destroyed.
Col. Broderick and Sen. Prentice knew that Col. Henderson and Sen. Clark had left the base together. Photos of U.S. Senators would have been readily available. The military police could have easily found Sen. Clark and arrested him, had that been their objective. Col. Henderson would probably have identified him had he been asked ("Is Sen. Clark with you, sir?").
3/ Never whack a made man.
Before you could touch a made guy, you had to have a good reason. You had to have a sit-down, and you better get an okay, or you'd be the one who got whacked.
He said they didn't need Karen. Henry was the witness whose testimony they needed. But if taking Karen too would keep Henry happy, then that was ok.
Federal agencies were aggressively prosecuting drug dealers, and Paulie didn't have the resources to bribe his way out of that.
They're prosthetic legs.
Any why didn't she and David have a second radio in their own house? David's father was wealthy (he owned the island), so there was no money issue. But that would have interfered with the plot.
In the novel, it's clear that the knife penetrates the heart.
What are electrolytes?
The woman was O-Lan Jones (billed as "Girl at Pancho's"), who was Sam Shepard's actual wife at the time.
The "film in reverse" technique was used in the film Sweet Liberty (1986), in the scene where a car almost hits a train. That's how I thought that it might be used in this case.
I'm sure film makers have developed lots of tricks.
So that people couldn't complain that there were no animals in the Animal House.
They were RIO's (Radar Intercept Officers), not copilots.