:10:02
They were filled with glory
and storming the outpost
:10:07
and taking the hill -
:10:09
all that macho, gung-ho stuff
that war movies delivered to us.
:10:14
They'd take these kids
:10:16
and dye shirts dark and light
to be the Nazis and Americans,
:10:21
and played desert warfare
out in the desert in Phoenix.
:10:25
First he wanted real explosives,
:10:27
but I wouldn't buy gunpowder,
so he used this mud trick.
:10:32
We'd bury one end of a stick
in mud and pivot it on a stone.
:10:38
The kid who was to get blown up
would step on the stick,
:10:43
flip the mud in the air
:10:45
and fall and roll over
and contort, stuff like that.
:10:49
It was just making it up.
:10:51
We didn't have any
special effects expertise.
:10:54
It was just making this come to life.
:10:57
I'm in "Escape To Nowhere" -
driving the jeep,
:11:00
scrunched down so I look real small.
:11:04
"Fighter Squadron"
was made around the same age.
:11:08
It was in black-and-white.
:11:10
It was my first
black-and-white movie.
:11:14
All the documentaries of the war
were black-and-white then.
:11:18
I went to the Skyharbour Airport
in Phoenix,
:11:21
and they had loads of World War
Two airplanes in mothballs.
:11:25
They had P-40s,
they had Thunderbolts,
:11:28
they had F6F Hellcats, all lined up.
:11:32
My dad got us permission
to sit in them.
:11:36
He did all the costumes for me,
:11:38
because I used his outfit from
Burma to make the movies with.
:11:42
So if I had nine kids
flying these airplanes,
:11:46
I only had one airplane and one
leather helmet and goggles,
:11:50
which they kept trading.
:11:51
In those days camera shops
also sold war documentaries,
:11:57
so I intercut a kid in my dad's
hat flying this airplane,