Review: A Book and a Movie

[pitsword]

The 7th Dawn is my favorite movie of all time. I know that I have watched it at least 10 times. William Holden was my favorite actor. I first saw the movie in 1965 IIRC. Soon after returning to Pearl Harbor from a joint Submarine mission with Brit Boats that were stationed in Kuala Lumpur. That movie, although set at an earlier date, had a great sense of reality for me in many, many ways.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by pitsword

The 7th Dawn is my favorite movie of all time...

It was based on the book "The Durian Tree" by Michael Keon, which I have never been able to find, in the past...Amazon now shows it as a used book from 1961...Hmmm, they have a Limited Edition DVD of the movie listed as well...

The tree seems to be a meeting place, although I don't recall it ever being directly referred to in the movie...

[pitsword]

The Durian tree was/is the same as our "great oak trees" in the park. Beautiful, full tree giving shade. The fruit was enough to make you puke, it had a really horrific smell.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by pitsword

The fruit was enough to make you puke...

Aw, now you got me thinking about food...Specifically, shrimp fried rice...When I was on Okinawa in '71, you could walk into Kin Son ville and get a dinner of 'shlimp flied lice'...

It was delicious...Nice big shrimps, lots of fried rice, in a flat wooden box [bamboo?] with a fried egg spread over the top of the rice...Chopsticks...Pepsi [in a Japanese bottle]...Man!!!

(I had to go out just now and get some Birdseye Steamfresh Chicken Flavored Rice and a can of Campbell's Chunky Beef w/Country Vegetables soup to pour over it)...

Campbell's doesn't make a Shrimp w/Country Vegetables...

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by pitsword

The Durian tree was/is the same as our "great oak trees" in the park.

The book "The Durian Tree" that "The 7th Dawn" was based on came today...Paperback...Published in 1961...

It's in pretty good shape...hardly read...but it's...browned...and dry...

I'll read it eventually...but I think it will probably be the last read for this old paperback...

[pitsword]

Haaaa, Susanna York behind that fern frond. Drying off from her swim that Ferris watched. Ferris, Ng and Dhana, the triangle of life.

Opening scene, Ferris with a sten sending the bad gomers in the trench grave to meet Buhda and the helo P A blaring "the war is over, the war is over". Ferris taps the gomer in front of him with the muzzle and the gomer falls in the trench. Ahhh, so great, so real.