On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

[Goldfinger] drove in the front gate with tanks and trucks in US Army livery.

The only military-related gold heist movie I can recall is "Kelly's Heroes" . . . which I always thought would make a perfect RPG adventure . . .

[Faced with a Tiger tank squatting in front of the bank holding the German gold, their only Sherman out of action and the *actual* U.S. Army closing in . . .]

Supply Sergeant/Fixer Crapgame {Don Rickles}: "Then make a DEAL!"

MSgt Big Joe {Telly Savalas}: "What kind of deal?

Crapgame: "A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy's a Republican. 'Business is business,' right?"

[Private (ex-Lieutenant) Kelly {Clint Eastwood}, Sherman commander Sgt Oddball {Donald Sutherland] and Big Joe walk brazenly across the village square High Noon style to confront the Tiger . . . absolutely LOVE the bit where Oddball loosens his souvenier Luger in it's holster . . .]

Big Joe. to TIger Commander: "Look, Mac, you and us? We're just soldiers, right? We don't even know what this war's all about. All we do is we fight and we die and for what? We don't get anything out of it. In about a half an hour the whole American army's gonna be comin' down that road. Why don't you do yourself a great, big fat favor, huh? And get the hell outta here?"

Tiger Commander: "I have orders. This bank isn't to fall into the hands of the American army."

Kelly: "Sergeant, this bank's not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It's gonna fall in our hands. You see, we're just a private enterprise operation."

Tiger Commander : "You... the American army!"

Oddball: "No, baby, we ain't."

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.