"The Conversation", and "Dead Man" plus "Ghost Dog."

You nailed it again.

... or it might be from "Platoon".

-- Ron

in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."

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I can't come close with certainty, but I have a vague recollection that "The Longest Day" had a lot of recognizable faces in brief roles - but I've not seen it in nearly forty years.

Dick Shawn's character "LSD"

(One of my all-time favorite movies)

One of my faves, as well!

He was a platoon Sergeant of one of our two ADM platoons. That is, until he went nuts and started shooting arrows into his neighbor's front door. I was the Battalion Nuclear Surety clerk and was tasked with yanking his security clearances, a career ending action. The Army rolled him up and shipped him somewhere else.

Oh, I just learned that tank was powered by an air cooled rotary engine, which was totally counter-intuitive for desert deployment in my pea-brain

I just received the movie in question as an interlibrary loan so that I can dig in for a second viewing, having first seen it maybe fifteen years back.

It all started when I was fleshing out the story on William S. Knudsen, and quickly found myself driving deep into the weeds; I learned to pack a lunch.

Good book!

My closest friend during my high school years had an eye for odd cars, and bought a '52 or '53 Henry J. that needed way too much work, and he mentioned that Kaiser had built Liberty ships. I had reason to think of Kaiser again when Edgar Kaiser, Jr., his grandson, bought my favorite football team.

"Charlie Don't surf!"

Not "Al"