FROM COMBAT! DISCUSSION LIST ARCHIVES
Producer Steve Rubin discusses the COMBAT! Movie

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Date: Friday, 3 January, 1997
Subject: Combat Movie Trivia Answers At Long Last

Happy New Year Everyone!

Sorry about the long delay in printing the answers to the First Ever Combat Movie Trivia Contest which was won by the brilliant Steve Schmidt on the Cruise:

Here are the answers. As you recall, I gave you the movie character name, and you were supposed to give me the actor. We had an incredible response. Of the 65 people who attended the cruise, only five entered the contest. Maybe it was a little daunting after all:

Lt. Rusty Ryan in They Were Expendable - John Wayne
Sergeant Tyne in A Walk in the Sun - Dana Andrews
Private Jim Layton in Battleground - Marshall Thompson
Sergeant Stark in From Here to Eternity - George Reeves
Brigadier General Norman Cota in The Longest Day - Robert Mitchum
Colonel Keith Davenport in Twelve O'Clock High - Gary Merrill
Animal in Stalag 17 - Robert Strauss
Major Warden in Bridge on the River Kwai - Jack Hawkins
Seaman Kraut Mueller in Run Silent Run Deep - Jack Warden
Lt. Ohashi in Pork Chop Hill - George Shibata
Private Henshaw in Hell is For Heroes - James Coburn
Jake Holman in The San Pebbles - Steve McQueen
Frick the Ferret in The Great Escape - Til Kiwe
High Pockets in "Battle Cry" - Van Heflin
Doc in Halls of Montezuma - Karl Malden
Lt. Cluster in PT 109 - Grant Williams
Oddball in Kellys Heroes - Donald Sutherland
Lt. Shafer in Where Eagles Dare - Clint Eastwood
Sergeant Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima - John Wayne
Colonel William Darby in Darby's Rangers - James Garner
Major Baldwin in The Mountain Road - James Stewart
Waco in the original Sahara - Bruce Bennett
Flying Ace Cleve Saville in  The Hunters - Robert Mitchum
Captain Joseph Ryan in Von Ryan's Express - Frank Sinatra
A. J. Maggott in The Dirty Dozen - Telly Savalas
Guy Gabaldon in Hell to Eternity - Jeffrey Hunter
Marine Private Frank O'Neill in In Love and War - Robert Wagner
Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
General James Gavin in A Bridge Too Far - Ryan O'Neill
Colonel Tammy MacRoberts in The Desert Rats - Richard Burton

Tie Breaker -  The Character names of these five actors in In Harms Way

John Wayne - Admiral Rockwell Torrey
Patrick O'Neal - Commander Neal Owen
Kirk Douglas - Commander Paul Eddington
Brandon de Wilde - Lieutenant Jare Torrey
George Kennedy - Colonel Gregory



Well, now you know what happens when you once wrote questions for a game show.

Well, on the "Combat" movie front, no news lately. 97 is going to be our year, though.

All the Best,
Steve Rubin.