Henry Hull's Difficulty Doing a Death Scene in Objective B

Bidwell McCormack takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. Today we are going to tell you of some interesting experiences which took place on several sets in Hollywood. And from time to time I propose to bring you the voices of stars and featured players themselves, as well as interviews of directors, producers, cameramen and technicians.

Suppose you tell us, Nathan, what that story about Henry Hull spending an entire day day alternately enacting a death scene and moaning because he hadn't died the day before. Well, hell bit, well, it was like this. The veteran actor was portraying an elderly overseas newspaper correspondent who accompanied Errol Flynn's platoon of paratroopers on a mission

in Objective-Burma. His fate was to die from sheer exhaustion after the hazards and horrors of a forced 150-mile trek through dense Burmese jungles. The death scene with Flynn was staged on a hilltop, after the weary paratroopers concluded their march by climbing an almost vertical mountainside, stumbling and pulling themselves about 250 yards up the steep slope.

The climb was the toughest shore that Cass performed in the more than one hundred days required to shoot the picture, and his hull collapsed he moaned long and loudly. Why couldn't this story have let me die a day earlier, hull wailed? Death just one day earlier would have let me died down at the bottom of this mountain. But no, I had to make this last futile climb

and die on a hilltop. Then the actor grinned and added, Boy, I sure could have double crossed him by really dying on the way up that hill. Well, one couldn't have blamed him much if he had really passed out, and speaking of passing out, the master of ceremonies at the Hollywood canteen nearly passed out recently, but under