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Jane Wyatt

posted 8 years ago by spookyrat1
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She had little to do, but it was interesting to see her play a "proud" navy wife, rather than a stereotypical, lonely, depressed defence forces wife. Rather than encourage her husband to take that big-paying onshore executive job, she castigated him and scolded that she would be ashamed if he left the navy. Kind of different and I'm sure the navy who provided a lot of technical support for the film wouldn't have been at all upset at this patriotic attitude.🐭

[–] pontevedro 7 years ago

Wouldn't have been the same movie if she encouraged him to leave. He would have left, and then we would have a very different movie. One called "Test Pilot" perhaps. Oh wait, they already made that one.

She is very beautiful in this. Too bad she wasn't used more often.

[–] spookyrat1 7 years ago

It's just interesting seeing the reverse of the normal scenario where the wife usually complains about the husband being wedded to his defence forces job.