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This week on FilmSack we strap on our 1930s retro rocket jetpacks and do THE ROCKETEER all the way back to a time when Dick Tracy style Ugly Mugs, Cocky Errol Flynn Turncoats Types (rumored) and Sky Nazis were so plentiful that you could hardly go 5 minutes without something to punch. NOW STRIKE ONE OF THEM PATRIOTIC FLAG WAVING IN THE WIND POSES and find me a lucky lady to kiss. Speaking of ladies… LOOK AT THAT LADY’S CLAM! Man she can sing at my club anytime…. in this 1991 comic to screen adaptation that any MOUSEKETEER would love to add to their VHS collection before DISNEY puts it back in the vault. NOOO!
Anywho, there is no problem too large or too small that Beeman’s Gum cannot plug. Got a rocket pack with a hole in it… no problem. Just a few chews later and bam! Sticky Wet Spittle to the rescue. That’s it… Jam it right in there and smear it all around. Don’t be afraid to really work the mouth juice all over the surface with your thumb. mmm… Beeman’s Gum… it’s the Bee’s Knees baby… if you chewed up some Bees into a gooey paste that is. GROSS Bee Knees not included.
Randy, it’s all part of the show.
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BRIEF
When a young stunt pilot discovers an experimental rocket pack hidden by gangsters, he becomes the mysterious Rocketeer. As the FBI, mobsters, and Nazi spies race to recover the device, Cliff must embrace his unlikely role as a hero while protecting the people he loves.
1991 | PG | Action/Adventure | 1h 48m
LINKS
IMDB: The Rocketeer (1991)
Wikipedia: The Rocketeer Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page
TVTropes: TV Tropes
WHERE TO WATCH
Streaming: [Check availability on JustWatch]
TRAILER/CLIPS
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The Rocketeer (1991) – Like a two-hour Beeman’s Gum ad. C’mon… we get it. Your gum is great stop rubbing it all over everything. #TheGumateer.
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SHOW NOTES
- This movie better not suck
- Reveal… prop plane… gentle music like in the morning… shhh… quiet opening.
- Keep it level and keep it straight it is your first time up. So don’t do anything interesting.
- Upside down in a beanfield.
- Put my spit gum on the rudder…
- You ain’t never flown anything like this. Gonna Take us to the nationals.
- Lady Luck on your side…
- Just enough canopy for your giant head… so you can see your pending death coming.
- National Air Race is up next.
- LA 1938… that was a lot of opening credits.
- Meanwhile on the ground… Tommy Guns, Cops and the feds.
- Well that was unfortunate. That guy with the Tommy gun thinks this is a video game from the 1930s… shooting everything… including the small race plane.
- Ahhh the heck with hoover.
- Oil leak right to the canopy.
- Ha… when did we lose Lenny?
- Lousy feds… killed poor ole Lenny. Sorry Lenny.
- I brought your plane back… some worse for the wear.
- 3 years on that plane. Get a real job.
- Your buddy is getting fitted for a pine overcoat.
- Hey that must be the Gizmo.
- J Edgar Hoover…ain’t gonna be happy.
- The X3 was destroyed.
- I co-operate at my discrection.
- Hughes! 1939 fair. Howard Hughes said so.
- Randy, what should we tell the president.
- The clown suit is in the store room.
- The Fearless Freep.
- Push the button.
- Runs on alcohol. Just like Randy.
- If it has wings I can fly it… but what about no wings?
- Lucky Lindy’s Flight School.
- A simple Snatch and Grab… it is what I pay you for.
- Mr. Movie star… going to charm the feds to death.
- Errol Flynn type? Nevil Sinclair.
- Best to get your 1930s history on.
- Strap this thing to a stolen statue, chain it to a stake and let ‘er rip.
- I lock up at 11 sharp.
- Test pilot and upcoming actress prior to WW2?
- Some Dick Tracy shit. Look at ole stone jaw…. he gonna fold you like a hotdog.
- WW1 vets. 18 years or so post WW1 end. WW1 war babies.
- Out of work pilot.
- Wasn’t no point in dating anyone after her.
- The Laughing Bandit.
- You are always the last to know.
- They don’t respect each others careers.
- Dangit…
- It’s all part of the show. Stay in your seats please.
- A little luck.
- How do I look? Like a hood ornament.
- Oh don’t worry folks. It is all part of the show.
- What clown is flying that plane.
- Randy, it’s all part of the show.
- Yeah, that is what I said… a rocket man.
- Man flies without plane.
- He’s been folding in half..
- I love this Dick Tracy bad guy.
- Cover the back? No way… we just shoot from the front.
- Too much WC Fields.
- Spanish Johnny.
- No. 3 box office star in America.
- Jennifer Connelly always being woo’d by the older men.
- James Horner is killing it with the music.
- I’m a Rocket Man… yeah.
- Lady in a Clam Shell Stage… everything was ocean themed in the big rooms.
- Meet me by the big fish.
- Prepare yourself for a shock. I’m the Rocketeer.
- Got to head back to my families Orange Farm that he used to crop dust.
- I would have thought there would have been more rocketing in your rocketeer.
- Take a look at that lady’s clam! Oh… and now she is singing.. beautiful.
- Gum can hold the pressure of a rocket hole?
- Good thing she came back to save him.
- When she knows all of your lines. You can’t use them on her.
- She is no Damsel in Distress. Her go to move… concussion. You have Chloroform. I have vase.
- I knew the Nazi’s had to play a part.
- Swap Jenny for the Rocket.
- Punching my way out of here..
- What if Indiana Jones Met Dick Tracy.
- Ask him about the Germans on the Radio.
- Nazi’s Nazi’s everywhere… coming out of the wood work.
- Gangsters vs Nazis I’m in.
- SNELL!
- 1 Lady Luck is worth 1 Rocket Engine.
- Money Shot! Rocketeer on the roof next to Waving Old Glory.
- Feds, Mafia’s Shooting together… Mass Hysteria.
- It wasn’t lies. It was acting.
- I’ll miss Hollywood.
- Oooh… that is how they got rid of LAND from Hollywood Land.
- Oh Ugly Mug is back.
- Run Jenny… Run.
- Jump for it Clifford… Saved by the Hughes.
- An unexpected Patriotic Movie.
- They are in a toxic relationship.
- No 5 GeeBee.
- It was the closest I will ever get to heaven. She’s standing right there!
- Beeman’s Gum
- Oh my prince… would you drink of my lips…
- Ice Cream down at the Pipe Smoking Bulldog.
