SITTING DUCKS

Imagine the scene,

‘Sitting Ducks’

Bravo Company have landed what was supposed to be a cushy gig, looking after some civilian workers at a village.

But this is ‘Nam 1968’, its war nothing is ever easy.

As they arrive they find that the C.O. of the guys there are reliving has shot himself apparently because of the number of men he lost there.

Soon Bravo Company are losing men each time they patrol, Someone is tipping off the bad guys to there every move.

Horn notices the Buddhist Monks are chiming the Monastery bells more than they really should.

So that night Sgt Anderson and Pvt.Horn go and stake out the Monastery, to see what’s what.

Horn is hungry and starts eating crackers as they lie in wait…………

Dramatic & powerful stuff.

That’s roughly what we see on TV.

Now read this from Joshua Maurer and then re-watch that scene and try not to think of this….

“In fact, when we shot this scene, it was a lost shot in an otherwise very long day (5:30 a.m. when we began)

So when we began the scene, it was already past midnight (I think it was around 1:00 a.m. actually). It was very cold and wet and we where all a little punch drunk.

Anyway, I hadn't eaten much for dinner so when we did scene, I absentmindedly ate too many crackers, so when I had dialogue, the crackers got stuck and I couldn't swallow them and when I spoke, the cracker crumbs went flying out my mouth in a huge torrent and right in Terry's face.

We were both stunned and the look on Terry's face was priceless. Then we both started cracking up in uncontrollable laughter. And everytime we tried to do scene, we started laughing.

We couldn't stop it, we had the giggles so bad it became impossible.

I think we must have done almost 20 takes before we got ourselves under control and finished scene. This is one of my fondest memories from the show.”

The above out-take was due to play on "TV Blooper's", but never aired.