Lee Marvin on Training For War Movies in The Marines | The Dick Cavett Show 

Members of the "WW2 shot in the ass" club: General Patton half of Easy Co. Lee Marvin? And who knows how many others?! Wild . . . .

@@chadsknnr Patton was actually shot in the ass in World War One, Meuse Argonne.

@@michaeldailey3219 Fair enough

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@@chadsknnr James Gardner Koreon War !!!!!!!! 🙄

06:30 :-D

Is wounded heroic? Just asking.

@@Kitiwake Just try being wounded in Combat. Then You'll know.

@@Kitiwake Going into combat and risking being wounded certainly is.

@@Kitiwake Just being in combat where every moment could be your last is heroic.

I have been to Saipan twice when I was in the Army. That place still sucks. The people are totally dependent on the USA. The Japanese still controlled the island through tourism from the Japanese visitors. We tried to get a room at the fancy hotel owned and run by Japanese and were turned away. It seems as though they only rented to Japanese tourists. There were still bones from the civilians that committed suicide rather than surrender to American forces here an there along the cliffs and beaches. As a combat veteran myself it is true about the experience. Every survivor has a different perspective of having been in a combat situation. I grew up with many heroes from the Greatest Generation and they are all now gone. I come from a mountain coal mining camp that provided more service members during WWII per capita than any other community in the USA. Pine Creek, WV.

@@nermlinger1941 A great documentary, The Straight Story, followed a real elderly man who rode his lawn mower to make a last journey (true story). This is one of the most unforgettable testimonies of WWII vets I ever heard. It starts after 4:10 on this youtube video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dp_DnZkoVNY.html

When a guy survives a horrifying brutal battle in Saipan, that’s how you know he’s a tough legend.

Baloney.

Meatloaf.

And both had good roles in The Dirty Dozen . Two thumbs up

There is NO tough guys these days. All are bunch of patsies compare to Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, ,,,,

@@biketech60 They were also great together in 'Death Hunt'. A must-see movie if you're a fan of either of those gentlemen.

Bronson did fought in WW2 as well.

@@Hunter7509 good movie, remember it well, another Bronson favourite is Hard Times

The fights in that were hilarious!

Donovan's Reef is a very enjoyable film to watch, but if I wanted to show somebody a film that highlighted how funny Lee Marvin could be it would be Paint Your Wagon, I just love that film...Though it would have been better if Clint hadn't felt the urge to talk to the trees.

When you upstage John Wayne, you know you did a great job!

Forgot all about that movie. Great flick.

Paint Your Wagon where he sang

Thumbs up to Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson not John Wayne who was a fake.

Agree about Wayne. Big difference between him and Marvin in their movies. Wayne had to project his characters, Marvin didn't.

@@dalereed3950 I always liked Charles Bronson,Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood a lot more than Wayne.

@@johndavis9432 He Was Not A Fake, John Wayne was as great as any man could be and I Loved him for it... God Bless You...

@@DAUGHTEROFBABYLON Bruce,you don't know what you're talking about and he was not as great as any man could be.You didn't know my Dad. And you didn't know Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin,Robert Howard,Norman VanCor or any other men who really were great.

Don’t be unfair. The clips on this channel aren’t only astoundingly good they also choose not to encumber their audience with RU-vid ads ever 90 seconds. You’ll find no complaints here.

They’re like Lays potato chips, you can’t watch just one

You have to liscene the footage

​@@maxsmith695 completing basic training gets you a ribbon, everyone who makes it through the first part gets it. The rest of those listed are not handed out to everyone, two of those are quite rare, ribbons and medals signify what you did, where you were, and when. Some people go their entire enlistment with only the basic training ribbon. Some people end up travelling the world, doing things civilians only see in the movies, and many things not seen in the movies. Ribbons are not for you or the civilians, or as a reward to the individual who earned them, they are for recognition between those who served. When in uniform their peers can see what they have done, where they went, and other commonalities. Some medals are worth promotion points, others are simply because you were there. Its easy to point at the people who enlist and talk poorly about them, saying things like they support some repugnant regime or whatever. However, that ire is misplaced, and should be placed at the feet and bashed about the head and shoulders of politicians who send those men and women off to fight in for profit conflicts. Its one thing to follow blindly or out of ignorance, its entirely another to accept the risk and responsibilities knowing full well what they could entail. From my perspective people who deride military members are doing so to salve their own ego, to assuage the guilt they feel over doing nothing while others went in their stead. Their fear is propped up with timid rationalizations to justify their inaction and complacency. Thinking themselves smarter, or more of a rebel who is loath to follow anything of importance, preferring to avail themselves of fads and seeking out other weak minded individuals for attention and validation. They are afraid to be the man in the arena, but will criticize and shout obscenities from a place of security afforded by the men at whom they scoff.

@@maxsmith695 The US military defends countless countries and people , we stand up for those who can't defend themselves.

@@SweatyFatGuy Best comment ever!🇺🇸

@@SweatyFatGuy I appreciate your articulate writing regarding why some of us serve. Thank you for setting Civilian Boy straight. I say, Hooah!

@@maxsmith695 Utter bullshit. You don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. Medals have been around long before 1915. Marvin saw combat in the South Pacific--you don't get medals like those mentioned for taking a stroll in the park.

Also Eddy Arnold... Green Acres

Good points Cy, the modern male leads are soft in comparison.

Don't forget Audie Murphy, I think he was the most highly decorated us soldier of WW2 , how he earned the medal of honor is awe inspiring

Truth Indeed AMEN

@Cy Brunel you forgot Klugman & Hackman.

Sounds like a Forest Gump sort of moment but it would have been well deserved. First thing that struck me watching this interview was remembering the sound of his voice. Always takes me back to his various performances. I think he was a good bloke. RIP.

Very woman kind of thing. Why wasn’t she fighting at any point, being weaker doesn’t make your life more valuable.

@@ComeAlongKay Some people are just self-righteous and judgmental, regardless of their gender. Or race.

@@ComeAlongKay she was a OG Karen. Wow they had them back then too. That's a trip.

@@supershane1960 Yes I thought of the same thing at 06:30 :-D

As opposed to unreal ones?

@mr scorpian yeah, morons who think america is the worst thing that has happened to humanity, there are too many of them who think like that. And I'm not american

Lee Marvin's shows that twice he sat up and closed OFF ...once when talking actual combat compared to movies and after he gave the shot in the ass quote near the end Cavitt to his credit like the better interviewers changed directions Today's interviewers would have seen those signs of discomfort and went in hard for click bait material

Great movie, have it at home, absolutely love all the performances and Lee Marvin is on top form 👍

You’d have 1 he’d have 10 lol

100%

You got that right ✅️

So true. There were others doing great work back then as well. Also, on the BBC. Today, very few but there is one amazing radio interviewer and that is Terry Gross on Fresh Air. She’s been doing it for decades and brilliant. Download her podcasts!

He wore his unit Jacket in that movie I Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division imgur.com/a/JPeRYp6

I'm not surprised. Lee was a fine man. If you have John Boorman doing your film, leave him alone & thank God for having him in charge.

I hope this is a true story... It's definitely something Lee Marvin would do.

@@Droodog127 droodog 127

Oh wow

A liberal no doubt with a silly question about a movie being violent. Duh it's a movie about WWII.

Truth

He could not act.

well said!

And that was back when you could smoke any and everywhere. When I was young my family doctor smoked in his office while we were in there with him. Second hand smokers fix all of that.

Started watching him in 1968 when I was 14 and loved the original version on ABC until it went off the air in the early 1970s and always thought he was a great interviewer and had many great guests and would have many in depth interviews that you couldn't get on other Talk shows and now a days it still holds up while today's talk shows have gotten even worse

@@jameshuseby6290 Same here, James. And I also agree about other talk shows.

You have just insulted just about every service men and women in the world.

@@phapnui Wow, I can see how you'd take it that way. Sorry. I should have said that it seemed to be in great abundance in that generation but today it is the exception. But the military is someplace you'd always see it. In any generation.

Witty.

Cigarettes age people fast.

Clint Eastwood was around that age in most of the Dirty Harry Films and looked a couple of decades younger. People are so dumb these days, they will pick out the most ancient looking celebrity from the times, Carol O'Connor from All in the Family is a common one, and claim people all looked old back then. True, testosterone levels are factually known to have been higher back then, but that wouldn't cause people to look decades older, nor would smoking except possibly in some chain smokers. The main difference is people in their 40s did not wish to look younger in those days (for the most part) so made no effort to dress, work out, or get plastic surgery in order to look younger.

@@daviddufresne343 people mistake me for 30s, I'm 40s and live an overt healthy life

@@blockaderunner keep tellin urself that pal. We all look different to different people lol.

@@daviddufresne343 ...Having a hard life growing up - not to mention fighting in WW2 would prematurely age someone......but people age at different speeds. This was emphasised by a newspaper once running a picture of Cary Grant next to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, who was the same age but looked old enough to be the actor's father!

Hardee har har...talking to you maniac!

I think that was Michael Madsen 's favorite line in "Reservoir Dogs".

I tell you what if you really think that you go take a walk up to Arlington National and go to an area called section 60 and tell those Marines and everybody else there that b*******. I got free friends buried there I was a hospital corpsman in Iraq and every single one of them are worth more than you will ever be.

@@navblue20 I actually knew that about Bronson and Marvin.John Wayne came up with one excuse after another for why he didn't enlist.He just didn't want to fight.

@@navblue20 She's not saying that all men act like that today and certainly not your friends and other servicemen who were in combat in the War on Terror.However,a lot of people do act like that now,especially actors.

Pretty tiny fluffy boys they parade now on the screen ! I mean beardless Matt fu..ing Damon for Christ sake ! Tom Cruse over acts all the time like a queen . Pitt is adored by all women and uses his body instead of acting . They all want to see his six pack oh my ....Clint Eastwood is the last man standing .

@@robertmanfredthurrigl9424 You're right on all counts.I've never liked Cruise.He's just a talentless pretty boy like Brad Pitt and so many others today.Clint is still around fortunately.

“Real” feminists don’t exist anymore. It’s a ploy, at this point, for revenge or to exert power over someone. I don’t believe one word a modern feminist says, including “and” and “the.”

But he lose not a single hair ! 👀🤔

@@batman2292 not a hair out of place yet countless wrinkles eat his face

Marion Moris (John Wayne) was in his 40's, and some twenty years earlier he suffered an injury that cost him his college football scholarship. Sure, he could have served, but would have been making far less interesting "propaganda" movies for the US Army, or training videos. Or, he could have been a supply clerk or something. Until December 1942 volunteers and draftees had to be at least 21 years-old to serve in the US armed forces. Few Infantry or other Combat Arms were older than 28 (other than senior NCOs and officers). Perhaps John Wayne could have been like LBJ (future POTUS Lynden Baines Johnson) and flown around on "Recon missions" far from any enemy or danger, then given a Silver Star... POTUS FDR was very conscious of not allowing celebrities being placed in danger, lest the Japanese or Germans get a propaganda victory. FDR ordered General MacArthur out of the Philippines, committing some of the few submarines, and B-17 bombers to evacuate him all the way to Australia. No major Hollywood stars of the 1930's served in combat.

@@paladinsix9285 get his name right, you show your ignorance

The Avengers in movies or television were a British guy with an umbrella and a woman in the 60s. I also read comic books with super heros by that name. I never saw the Dirty Dozen when it came out and two years later I was in boot camp. I assume the military made more sense and was more disciplined than it turned out in the real world. Our NCOs could not even maintain their OWN SELF-discipline, much less that of others. Some were meant for military service. They believe in following orders when they are senseless and crude. Of course, I only had six years in the USN, from 1969 to 1975, so my impression of professionalism during a time of slavery with a military draft could be tainted. My dad said, "It's not McHale's Navy." It was not comical. It was dangerously stupid and had a boring plot. There are no days off and you cannot resign just because the war is over or your President is an idiot and liar like Johnson.

the avengers super hero genre is bs and cg, The Dirty Dozen is men doing what men do!

@@dev-lx8lp the Dirty Dozen was fiction you twit.

Damn straight!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@@JohnLloydScharf Good comment. People think Trump is a “liar,” and usually it’s the first thing Trump-haters say about Trump. But when Johnson lied, thousands of people died. Same with Bush. Trump RAN FOR OFFICE promising not to start Endless, Pointless Wars and Foreign Entanglements, and he kept his promise. Your comment illustrates that past Presidents lied, and their lies meant death and war. Thank you for your wisdom.

It would have been good for Dick to have explored that.....I think it would have made for honest television. Let's face it...Marvin is an unusual character and very forthright....it's like he is just waiting to be asked questions that get right into the man....Dick Cavett was perhaps a little in awe of Lee Marvin's alpha male masculinity?

Lee Marvin was being a little bit self deprecating in his answer. Yes, he was shot in the ass. But, as I understand it, his sciatic nerve was severed. This would have been an incredibly painful wound

he could have been on radio...great voice

Yes, he has the utter self-assuredness of a man who's already faced the most essential tests of self from deadly and ruinous forces, and passed said tests in a manner that lets him know he possesses mettle most others couldn't perceive, much less possess themselves

He has met with triumph and disaster and met those two imposters just the same.

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A man's man. Respect.

My uncle is, too! He never even mentioned to anyone how many medals he had earned.

Hes reallly buried at Arlington?

@@suesjoy I had an uncle in ww2. He stayed in the army 20 years retired in 1960. He never talked about it either. I about 15 when I found out he had survived the battan death march and 3 years as a Japanese p.o.w . A really nice man .

MARVIN, LEE Section: 7A Grave: 176 Branch of Service: US MARINE CORPS Birth Date: 02/19/1924 Death Date: 08/29/1987 Interment Date: 10/07/1987

So true... these days it's "it's all about me, me, me" from people who have done _nothing_ in their lives.

Indeed we do. My grandmother was nearly the eldest of 13 siblings. She had 9 brothers, 6 of whom fought in WWII, one in Korea, and another in Korea and Vietnam. Her home was Family Central for Thanksgiving and Christmas. As a child I didn't fully understand it, but I felt joy being in the presence of those men. And being the son of a father, raised in the presence of these men. I am 57, and they are all gone now. And I pray that I have offered even but a spark to my own children, of the fire I felt from those great men.

One of my favorites

I was born in 1947 almost every adult male I knew was a WW II vet.

They're sometimes called the Greatest Generation for good reason. Not the other wars guys had it any better.

BULLSHIT!!!!!

Rum and Tonic ?

@@jamesrey4275 Only that.

@@bobfarrell6785 Why is that bullshit?For all you know he really might have served Lee Marvin.Marvin did live in Arizona.

My late father-in-law crossed paths with Lee Marvin in Malibu, CA in the 1960s a few times, and when my father-in-law said 'hi' to him, he said Marvin would give a drunken grunt of acknowledgement in response.

I don’t believe his drinking was a problem.

Charles Bronson said he literally wanted to kill Lee Marvin because he was drunk and late on the set all The time 😂

Does that remind you of somebody that? President Trump

And just remember back in the days you could smoke a cigarette and the courtroom while you were giving testimony, you were able to smoke a cigarette or do whatever I think it even though it was a bad thing we had more freedom with them

@@ohnoitisnt666 Post-Combat, who doesn't have a drinking problem? Regardless, Lee Marvin was the real deal.

Smoked 2 Packs a Cowboy Killers a day...gone at 63..Cancer Sticks

That was a totally different era.... The punk-ass kids (fueled by the military & tech industrial complex) have taken over, and they know what's BEST of ALL of us... Crazy... God Help us ALL...

Oh, I don’t know. There were Hollywood jerks back then and now, good ones then and now.

@neogeomaster let us all know when you learn the English language.

One can also notice, the difference between the hosts then and now, so respectful even self-correcting themselves.

Yes they were not so much now.

Serious? Must have been a long time ago..not years.

@@GTOberfest Indeed, since he oassed in 1987.

LOL. Which was he? This has got to be one of the better fictional comments I’ve read. Or perhaps just a bad troll job.

I was a Corporal with two years in nam 66-68. That's all I want on mine. Semper Fi brothers.

what greater honor could there be ?

The author Avram Davidsons greatest point of pride was his service as a corpsman in Okinawa.

@@raysnyder7512 exactly

SEMPER FI! LET'S FUCKING GO!

DD-214 - America's Original Man Card.

Absolutely a great comment, I myself have never been In the Military or even close to War...but that comment gave me the chills.

Except for the fear. US Marine Corp 199-2006. In country 12/02/66-07/14/1969 Charlie Company/ Hotel Company 1St Battalion, 1st Marines . Only liars say they no fear

@@pepper13111 1980-1992 USMC...x3 Wespacs, x2 UDP's and x1 Combat tour...Oooorah!....Note: I did a tour with Wpns Company, 1st Bn 1st Marines from 83-86

You can have 6 combat vets all recounting their combat experiences and have 6 different versions of the war to them with some similarities . It’s been my experience . Vietnam/Cambodia 70-71 25th Infantry Division

@@benitomaldonado7080 Same thing even just being a contractor in an active warzone.. you get a bunch of guys on a truck driving in shifts, some handle it well and some can't relax.

Too right. Shot in the arse is still shot, by a 7.7mm nambu round. A major wound. I believe his wallet in his back pocket of his trousers copped some of the force and possibly saved his life.

@@paulkeys175 Unlikely, don't carry your wallet in combat..

@@donlove3741 I am pretty sure I heard this from Lee Marvin himself during an early interview of his.

@@donlove3741 How would you know? .

@@BobSmith-dk8nw really ? A wallet in combat . A source of info about you.. guess you'd need drivers license, credit cards,proof of insurance and personal photos.. All the stuff you'd need eh?