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Taboos of the World (1965)
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Air Force - Scene Stills
Here are a few scene stills from Warner Bros' Air Force (1943), starring John Garfield and Gig Young.

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Glenn Miller Story, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Four Saxes And A Clarinet Dramatizing the key component of the title character's celebrated sound, James Stewart (with support from Harry Morgan, Charles Drake and George Tobias), after losing a trumpeter, tumbles to a clarinet solution, validated by his wife (June Allyson), via his own signature composition (Moonlight Serenade), in The Glenn Miller Story, 1954.
City For Conquest (1940) -- (Movie Clip) These Boys Better Be Good James Cagney as trucker Danny dipping his toe back into fighting, Frank McHugh as corner-man Mutt, Donald Crisp the visiting promoter, George Tobias his wing-man, and Kit Guard as the worse-for-wear ex-fighter, early in Warner Bros.’ City For Conquest, co-starring Ann Sheridan and Arthur Kennedy.
Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Punchinello Celebrating their engagement, with a reprise of a Bob Wright-Chet Forrest original, this is the only musical bit in the picture for Rita Hayworth, as Manhattanite Patricia, because it’s really a vehicle for Tony Martin, as singer Bob, support from Edith Fellows, George Tobias and George Humbert, in Music In My Heart, 1940.
Silk Stockings (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Red Blues Put forward as a deliberately "decadent composition" (a Cole Porter original), and supposedly taking place in the apartment of Ninotchka (Cyd Charisse) back in Moscow, the whole neighborhood takes notice, Eugene Loring choreography, in the MGM musical re-make Silk Stockings, 1957.
Sergeant York (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Cuts Down The Haze At Camp Gordon, Georgia, 1917, enduring ridicule from Sergeant Early (Joseph Sawyer), who can't see why a would-be conscientious objector would be handy with a rifle, Gary Cooper (title character) demonstrates mad skills, in Howard Hawks' Sergeant York, 1941.
Set-Up, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Eggs In The Coffee From the opening scenes, manager Tiny (George Tobias) planning with Danny (Edwin Max) to throw a boxing match, trainer Red (Percy Helton) suggesting they should tell their fighter, in Robert Wise's The Set-Up, 1949.
This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) God Bless America! Kate Smith's titanic delivery of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," recreating her 1938 introduction of the song on her radio show, with a patriotic montage featuring Ronald Reagan and many more in Warner Bros.' Technicolor fundraiser for Army Emergency Relief, This Is The Army, 1943.
This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We're On Our Way! George Murphy as impresario Jerry Jones is practically a stand-in for the real Irving Berlin, playing the composer of Berlin's own "Yip Yip Yaphank," from 1918, leading the cast of his all-soldier musical from Broadway to France, in a famous sequence from the fund-raiser musical This Is the Army, 1943.
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Harrigan, That's Me! Composer George M. Cohan (James Cagney, title character), with wife Mary (Joan Leslie), shopping songs in 1890’s New York, George Tobias and Chester Clute passing on one of his biggest hits, then meeting their future partner (Richard Whorf), in Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.
Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Hickam Radio The crew on the "Mary Ann" (John Garfield, Harry Carey, George Tobias, Ward Wood, John Ridgely et al) is headed for Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor when the radio signal is interrupted, in Howard Hawks' Air Force, 1943.
Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) God Bless Mary Ann Conversations in the cockpit (John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy) and cabin (Harry Carey, George Tobias, John Garfield) as the "Mary Ann" leaves San Francisco for Hawaii, in Howard Hawks' Air Force, 1943.
Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Prologue Martial opening credits and prologue in which director Howard Hawks summons the intentions of Abraham Lincoln, in the wartime hit Air Force, 1943, starring John Garfield, Harry Carey and Gig Young.

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