Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "The History Chap" channel.

  1. Sir Michael Caine was a private in this war. He's spoken about his experience of being cut off miles behind the Chinese lines. He and some other squaddies decided to crawl back through the Chinese foxholes and get back to their own lines. They all had a pee and set off. The squaddies were so close to the Chinese, they could smell the garlic on the breath of the enemy. He and the others got back by the skin of their teeth. Sir Michael has said, since that experience, he has never really been frightened of anything since.
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  2. @The Richest Man In Babylon "Oi - stop chuckin' them bleeding spears!"
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  3.  @donaldfeger91  Here's another snippet about Sir Michael. There's an interview from the 1980s on YouTube, about his star appearance in "Jaws 4". He says something like, "I've never seen the film. I'm told it's dreadful, but the house I bought with the money is wonderful".
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  4.  @andrewjost6714  They must've smoked a load of drugs before greenlighting the screenplay.
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  5.  Garry Arden  And if you tell that to people, they won't believe it.
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  6. Trubshaw. (I said it 'cos David can't.)
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  7.  @TheHistoryChap  Niven had a friend called Trubshaw. He inserted the name into every film he made, a bit like Hitchcock making cameo appearances. Miss Trubshaw was in "The First of the Few". Only ONE Niven film didn't have the reference. He filmed a scene in which he called his dog "Trubshaw", but the scene was deleted.
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  8.  @paulharrison3926  Mr. Caine blew some doors off on the way.
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  9.  @corcoranger  Correct.
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  10. I recall the story of the submarine HMS Thule. During WW2, it delivered arms and explosives to the resistance who were fighting the Japanese. The British knew that those weapons might be used against themselves after the war. They only supplied explosives with a short shelf-life in warm damp jungle conditions. The guns had weak firing pins and would quickly self-destruct.
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