So we're sitting over a friends house watching an old movie, "Bridge On The River Kwai" with William Holden and Jack Hawkins, and Sir Alec Guinness.
There's the scene where, after getting a bullet through his foot, Jack Hawkins sits down and takes what looks like a brown bone handle slip joint from his buttoned uniform shirt pocket, and cuts the lases of the boot to get it off the shot foot. It looked to me, like a single blade trapper or what they call a farmers knife. Slim pointy clip blade.
I got a little kick out of a WW2 comando movie, with the charaters deep in the Burma jungle, and a nice normal slip joint being shown to do something. I mean, it may have been more dramatic to use the Fairbain type dagger they all had, but the pocket knife gave it a bit more down to earth reality.
Now, if I can just stop whistling that tune I've been driving Karen crazy all morning with...
There's the scene where, after getting a bullet through his foot, Jack Hawkins sits down and takes what looks like a brown bone handle slip joint from his buttoned uniform shirt pocket, and cuts the lases of the boot to get it off the shot foot. It looked to me, like a single blade trapper or what they call a farmers knife. Slim pointy clip blade.
I got a little kick out of a WW2 comando movie, with the charaters deep in the Burma jungle, and a nice normal slip joint being shown to do something. I mean, it may have been more dramatic to use the Fairbain type dagger they all had, but the pocket knife gave it a bit more down to earth reality.
Now, if I can just stop whistling that tune I've been driving Karen crazy all morning with...
