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12 O'Clock High: The Loneliest Place in the World (1965)
Savage Killed off to get better ratings.
I read somewhere, that the decision to trade Savage for Gallagher was to appeal to younger audiences. I was 8 years old when this change happened, so I put myself as one of the "Younger Audience".
I had never seen Paul Burke in anything, prior to this, and to me he was an unknown, so no
preconceptions.
When I saw him playing Col Callagher, he seemed to over dramatise every movement, most egregiously his hokey method of saluting. Being from a military family, I was tempted to do an eye roll every time I saw him salute.
I still feel that Lansing did a better job of being "The Old Man" as unit commanders were often called. While I like the entire series, this "young person" disagrees with the decision for the change. I would liked to have seen Lansing continue in the part.
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
I was present for filming.
I was present for filming the parts of this movie that were made at Fort Chaffee AR. I was stationed at Ft Polk LA at the time but my unit, (2/2 Cavalry), routinely went to Fort Chaffee for Gunnery, and they just happened to be making the movie while we were there.
The sign and guard shack for the main entrance to "Tuskegee" was actually a prop set up on a space on the main road into Ft Chaffee, about 200 yards from the WWII barracks my units lived in for our training period.
I thought the movie was very good but I later did some study and found some (understandable) inaccuracies. As a military history lover, I found that the planes in the movie were all P-51 Mustangs, which was (eventually) accurate for the Tuskegee Airmen, but they started their combat tour in P-40 Warhawks, they did not use P-40s because in 1995 when the movie was made P-51 were rare and P-40s were nearly non existent.