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Tom Cleaver
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Here's a nice Christmas present for airplane geeks

November 8, 2023 · in News · 12 · 396

Coming this Christmas from Disney+ and Executive Producer/Star/Certified Airplane Nut John Travolta.

Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"

youtu.be/cTCeX3CCdB8 · on youtube

Reader reactions:
8  Awesome

12 responses

  1. Love it already, Tom!
    Thanks!

  2. Wow! That short really looks good. John Travolta still has his movie mojo, I see. Thanks for posting this heads-up, Tom. I appreciate it.

  3. One movie that I would see in a theatre.

  4. I'll be waiting for it! 👍

  5. I've got to see this! I love the story..."the Flying Dutchman" meets "Stranger to the Ground". I have a first edition of the book. I bought it when it first came out.

  6. Great news! All you Shepherd fans should listen to this classic reading by the late Alan Maitland, a longtime CBC radio host.

    https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2146950723817

    My wife and I listen to it every Christmas with the grandson.

    Cheers all.

  7. Would love to see this movie, Tom @tcinla
    Thanks for notifying.

  8. Hopefully this will make its way to other venues since I had to let Disney Plus go. Although not related except they cover the same approximate era, "High Flight" from 1957 is a pretty good RAF post war flying film. Vampires, Hunters, and other RAF aircraft.

    • The way things are right now for the studios, do not hold your breath expecting it to show up anywhere but D+ - I'd really hate to see you turn blue and die, Carl! 🙂

  9. The trailer is very cool, Tom (@tcinla). I read the novella many years ago, but I have always remembered it.

  10. Love the CBC presentation...Hopefully this will become a yearly holiday watch as well. Thanks, Tom.

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