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Re: Assault On A Queen
Posted by: Gary ()
Date: June 24, 2013 01:33AM

Pat H Wrote:
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> Greetings,
>
> I just finished reading Jack Finney\'s book,
> \"Assault On A Queen\" written in 1959. It
> involves the raising of a WW-I U-boat, U-19, (if
> such a boat ever exsisted) and its refitting for a
> mid-ocean heist.
> The book was made into a movie of the same name
> in the mid-to-late 1960\'s with Frank Sinatra and
> Tony Francesca (sic). From the little I\'ve read
> or remember, a WW-II U-boat was used in the movie
> version. (I haven;t had any luck finding a video
> version of the movie locally.)
> Has anyone here seen that movie? Was a real
> U-boat used for the filming? If so, what number
> was it?
>
> -- Pat H

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Assault On A Queen Pat H 09/01/2001 10:51PM
RE: Assault On A Queen J.T. McDaniel 09/01/2001 11:23PM
RE: Assault On A Queen Mike 09/03/2001 04:52AM
Re: Assault On A Queen Gary 06/24/2013 01:33AM
Re: Assault On A Queen Gary 06/24/2013 01:40AM
Re: Assault On A Queen Tom Koehl 01/16/2015 04:31PM


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