Parachute Jumper

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Shaking the Rump: After the opening shot of biplanes in combat, the first shot is a rather surprising close-up of a woman shaking her bottom at the camera, said bottom filling the entire scene. Bill and Toodles are in a Nicaraguan cantina enjoying the company of local ladies. If I want to do a tandem skydive near me, do I come to you?'. Yes is the answer. This flexible, nationwide tandem skydiving voucher covers loads of venues around the country. All Women Are Lustful: Mrs. Newberry, who hires Bill to be a chauffeur but is more interested in telling him to turn around while she can look at his torso, before she comes over and feels his bicep. She is giving Bill bedroom eyes non-stop in the scene where she invites him up to her room. He's clearly reluctant as he's in love with Alabama, but is apparently about to give in when Weber, Mrs. Newberry's lover, shows up.

Frank Hagney as Marine officer in Nicaragua who tells Bill and Toodles, "this binge of yours has cost the government a small fortune — consider yourselves under arrest" UK Only. Despatched by Royal Mail first class post on the same day. Excludes Weekends & Bank Holidays. Cut to New York, where Bill and Toodles are looking for work and not finding it, and going hungry. They meet Pat "Alabama" Brent ( Bette Davis), a secretary who is also out of work and also hungry (it's the Great Depression) and apparently considering hooking.

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The other high point for me was the way disillusionment over the time period crept in to the script, but never kept the film from playing as light entertainment. The young couple steal a wrapped-up fish from an alley cat, and condiments from a diner. She resorts to flirting to get a job, likening what she said as no more meaningful than promises politicians make. Behind the closed door of the office of the Society for Enforcement of Prohibition, we find a guy drinking. Lastly, we get this exchange between Fairbanks and a prospective employer, morals going out the window out of necessity:

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Mordaunt Hall, reviewer for The New York Times, called it "a fast-moving tale of adventure in the air and on earth ..." [7] That review summed up the format of crime and adventure in the air that had been explored in a number of other films of the period. [8] In a later review, Leonard Maltin called it a "Fast-moving, enjoyable Warner Bros. programmer." [9] In popular culture [ edit ]

Video Credits: Of all the principals at the start of the film, as was Warner Brothers house style in this era. In early October 1932—several months before the film's release—the entertainment trade paper The Film Daily reported that Warner Bros. had changed the name of the production from simply Parachute to Parachute Jumper. [3] a b Carr, Jay. "Articles: Parachute Jumper (1933)." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: August 15, 2013.

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The parachute or canopy used is a modern ‘square parachute’ made of technically advanced materials and specifically designed to allow the student jumper to steer the canopy to the landing area. A radio attached to the jumper’s helmet is often used to coach the student and assist in the landing of the parachute. When your instructor deploys the chute at around 5000ft, expect a jerk as the falling stops and you go upwards for a second or two. It's only then your brain really registers the sensation that you are descending. Harry C. Bradley as man who is surprised in the midst of taking a drink in Society for Enforcement of Prohibition office when Bill enters looking for Alabama Axe Before Entering: A sequence towards the end has the cops chopping down the door to Weber's office. Weber and Bill make their way out via secret passage, but Weber shuts the door to the passage in the face of Steve the mook, and Steve is shot when the police finish chopping down the door and break in. Book Ends: The film ends with Toodles rejoining the Marines and Bill, after getting Alabama to agree to marry him, doing the same.

Leon Waycoff as pilot at Roosevelt Field who tells Alabama, "he'll be all right, lady — if he's half as good as he says he is" Contrived Coincidence: Bill gets a job as a bodyguard for Weber, a bootlegger and, as is later revealed, a drug-runner. New York is a large city, but of all the places where Alabama could finally get work, she gets hired by Weber as a secretary.

Bill Keller and "Toodles" Cooper ( Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Frank McHugh) are Marine pilots exercising a little bit of American imperialism in Nicaragua. (The US actually did fight an undeclared war in Nicaragua in the late 1920s and early 1930s.). Bill and Toodles get shot down, and somehow make their way to a town where they are busy engaging in wine, women, and song when they are caught by military police. They are summarily drummed out of the Marine Corps. A static line descent can be made after usually about 6 hours of ground training and involves the student jumper leaving the aircraft at 3500 feet. The main parachute is deployed using a device called a ‘static line’. This is a length of webbing attached to the aircraft at one end and the bag, in which the main parachute is kept, at the other, as the jumper falls away from the aircraft, the static line pulls the main parachute out and begins the deployment.