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Captain Adams and Chief Pringle

posted 9 years ago by Eric-62-2
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Apparently the Captain and Chief had relatives in America who worked for an airline! I just started watching Andrew Stone's previous film "Cry Terror!" and in the opening scene noticed that the letter address to the President of 20th Century Airlines was to "Robert Adams" (same name as the Captain) though he later on the phone identified himself as "Roger Adams". Then he asks for his security chief, Dan Pringle.

I guess Stone must have had friends with those names to reuse them again in his next film!

[–] hobnob53 9 years ago

Personally, I wouldn't feel too secure aboard any vessel helmed by a pair of guys named after beer and potato chips.

Good catch about the same names, Eric. Billy Wilder also used some names and lines over again. There was a "Mr. Sheldrake" in both Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment; he used the insurance company "Pacific All Risk" in both Double Indemnity and Ace in the Hole; he had a slight variation of the line, "I wish I was in hell with my back broken" in Five Graves to Cairo, Sabrina and One, Two, Three. There are many other examples. Carl Foreman always had characters named Baker, Cohn and Grogan in his films. I guess it's similar to Hitchcock always making a cameo or some directors repeatedly using the same actors (as Frank Capra did with Charles Lane, or William A. Wellman with George Chandler) as sort of good-luck charms.