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> I don't see the movie "The Bedford Incident" below? Oh right, that one. I remember that as a suspenseful movie. I suppose the radio has to have figured in the climax, but mostly I remember them hunched over the sonar and hydrophones for hours. Here's a couple others I'd forgotten: Broken Arrow: The title comes from the US brevity code for a damaged nuclear weapon with mandatory safety perimeter, though they kind of mess up on the concept. At one point the "BROKEN ARROW" message comes over the radio and someone says, "I don't know what's worse, that this had to happen, or that they already have a code for it." Red Planet Mars: I don't know how I forgot this one. It's gotta be one of the silliest 50s paranoia flicks made, in a genre where there's a lot of competition for this honor. A very, very young Peter Graves is this brain-damaged scientist who's trying to contact Mars on some kind of hydrogen-powered radio. No joy until his kid decides to trade digits of pi with the Martians, then the ultimate DX, at which point western civilization comes unstuck. Next thing we know the Martians are delivering Christian sermons straight from the Bible. This definitely gives Russia a very bad day. But things do not end well. There's one really depressing post-nuke TV movie, might be The Day After, where a surviving town uses a ham radio to try and contact anyone else left alive. Never is the phrase "no joy" so appropriate. -hugh _______________________________________________ Spooks mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
