Let's think back even farther! "What Price Glory" with Victor McLaglen as Captain Flagg and Edmund Lowe as Sargeant Quirk in the 1926 silent film version (directed by Raoul Walsh) of the Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson Broadway play are two hard boiled marines, and perhaps even more tough talking since the film is silent. It is one of the many of a silent film genre called back then "cuss word puzzles" where the audience delighted in going to see films just to read lips! A year later, Raoul Walsh would star himself in "Sadie Thompson" as a semi-tough marine in the South Seas. Since the first marine films go back to at least 1897 according to the AFI catalog, lets assume there's more of these before my example. But of course, there is no such thing as a tough talking Marine -- just hard-of-hearing privates. Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video 275 West 96th Street, Suite 28C New York, NY 10025 Phone: (212) 865-7449 Fax: (212) 222-8952 Email: [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]