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Warner Brother's has FINALLY released Jack Webb's version of THE DI. For anyone that has never seen this movie, it is a classic performance from him and takes place Korea to possibly early Vietnam involvement? He really gets his poit across with intimidation and "dry humor" WITHOUT ANY PROFANITY. I remember watching this movie with my brother, who went thru Parris Island in 1952. A really good story about a guy who doesn't know what his calling is in life, and someone who is there to show him.............Stryker II
 
Yep, I remember the recruit flinching when the sand flea bit him on the cheek...

Great movie, Webb was great in that role!

Though I do say, R Lee Ermey has been perfect every time he's played a DI (from "The Boys in Company 'C' " to "Full Metal Jacket" and beyond) and the profanity doesn't bother me as much there, as it seems to be in context, not so much gratuitous.

Have to put "The DI" on the wish list...
 
Always loked this movie and Jack Webb too. Loved Dragnet and still watch the re-runs. Webb had a good part in Halls Of Montezuma, if I remember correctly. -- lancer
 
Lancer: Halls of Montezuma is one of my all time favorites--loved the cast and the entire premise of the movie. I got Pride of The marines from Warner's too and its a true story about Al Schmid--hero from Guadalcanal.

Baron: Yes, R L Ermey is the real deal. My DI's were alot like him, and I personally got to meet him and get his autograph last year at the huge Louisville gun show that takes place there. He is exactly like he is on camera, and a real straight shooter. He has the most massive Marine ring on that I have ever seen....................Stryker
 
Saw Pride Of The Marines as a kid and spent years re-enacting the battle scene with my Marx Marines and Japanese soldiers. Love reading USMC military history, mainly 20th century. Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood, any WW2 stuff especially Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, etc. and Korea at Chosin. Once worked with a retired Marine Sgt. that was one of the Chosin Few. Nice guy, tough as the proverbial nail. Back on topic, Garfield was great as Schmid. He also did a good show called Air Force in which he was a B-17 gunner in the early Pacific war. -- lancer
 
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Saw Pride Of The Marines as a kid and spent years re-enacting the battle scene with my Marx Marines and Japanese soldiers. Love reading USMC military history, mainly 20th century. Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood, any WW2 stuff especially Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, etc. and Korea at Chosin. Once worked with a retired Marine Sgt. that was one of the Chosin Few. Nice guy, tough as the proverbial nail. Back on topic, Garfield was great as Schmid. He also did a good show called Air Force in which he was a B-17 gunner in the early Pacific war. -- lancer
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I cannot get enough about Tarawa, I think I have most every book and article published on it. My brother was at Chosin, and yes I remember him in Air Force. Another one that was great was the Purple Heart or something like that, where US bombing crew was actually captured by the japs and put on trial--great story. The SS/krauts didn't have anything on the Japs for mistreatment of prisoners of war...............Stryker
 
theBaron said:
Yep, I remember the recruit flinching when the sand flea bit him on the cheek...

Great movie, Webb was great in that role!

Though I do say, R Lee Ermey has been perfect every time he's played a DI (from "The Boys in Company 'C' " to "Full Metal Jacket" and beyond) and the profanity doesn't bother me as much there, as it seems to be in context, not so much gratuitous.

Have to put "The DI" on the wish list...
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I will second your post on R Lee Ermey, I always enjoy watching him. He is a

real credit to the Marine Corp.
 
This one is less known but pretty good. It's all basic training as in the DI.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046398/

Take the High Ground! (1953)

Richard Widmark ... Sgt. Thorne Ryan

Karl Malden ... Sgt. Laverne Holt

"Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as an instructor to privates in a southern state of the USA. But is he really the evil man he is often described as? "


Take the High Ground!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_High_Ground!

"In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas encounter their drill instructors, Sgt. Laverne Holt (Karl Malden) and the tough-as-nails Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Richard Widmark). After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic training. Ryan, a combat veteran who resents his stateside duty, repeatedly applies for a transfer back to the Korean front."

Awards

* The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Titanic.

Production

"The film was originally to be shot at the U.S. Marine boot camp in San Diego, California under the title The Making of a Marine[1]. It was later asserted that "the Marines refused to cooperate because they did not want to stir up old controversies over the toughness of their training program."[2] The Army, however, cooperated fully with the studio, and location filming took place at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas."
 
A side note about The DI. It was made a year after this incident.

Ribbon Creek Incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_Creek_Incident


"The Ribbon Creek Incident is the most common term for events which occurred on the night of April 8, 1956, when Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, a junior Drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina marched his assigned platoon into Ribbon Creek, a swampy tidal creek. The incident resulted in 6 dead United States Marine Corps recruits. McKeon was found guilty of possession and use of alcoholic beverage........"
 
One more.

Tribes (1970) (TV) It was available on VHS. As it came out during the Vietnam war it was "topical."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066490/


Darren McGavin ... Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Drake

Earl Holliman ... Sgt. Frank DePayster

Jan-Michael Vincent ... Adrian


"Among the new recruits in a U.S. Marine basic-training platoon is Adrian, a long-haired member of the hippie generation, opposed to blind allegiance to authority and the complete opposite of Gunnery Sergeant Tom Drake, who is assigned as Drill Instructor for Adrian's platoon. ....."

This one does NOT have a happy ending.
 
Could also try "Tigerland" starring Colin Farrell. A Viet Nam era boot camp movie. -- lancer
 
Most folks know Darren McGavin as the "Old Man" from A Christmas Story.
 
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