"The commandos stormed ahead. They ran right over the body of dead Nazi laying on. The 'Nazi' was Dick Stuart, Lincoln's home-run-hitting outfielder. That scene from the movie , was probably the first and last time anyone will ever run over Dick Stuart."

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“Peter Sellers is now in the $250,000-per-picture class—that was his deal with Stanley Kubrick for "Dr. Strangeglove" —and inasmuch as he makes pictures as fast as he can read scripts, he should be a millionaire by Saturday.”

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