United in our mind – for no adequately clear reason – in a trio with The Eagle Has Landed and Where Eagles dare, although it may just be that they fall into the twin categories of Shown An Awful Lot and Films Everyone’s Dad Likes. Rock ‘and wife?’ Hudson, Patrick ‘Columbo’ Mcgoohan, Jim ‘Slammer’ Brown and Ernest ‘Bingo was his name-o’ Borgnine all race to the pole to get that darn capsule.
Richard Davies
August 5, 2010 at 9:09 pm
This was one of Howard Hughes’s favourite films in his later years, & liked to watch it almost daily if not more often.