reading from Nov 2 2017
4,10,20 A,b,c,d,e......
what does this mean?
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Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow.[3] The screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel was based on the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.[3]
Set mainly in New York City and Washington, D.C., the film is about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover his co-workers murdered, and tries to outwit those responsible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
White Squall is a 1996 American disaster survival film directed by Ridley Scott. It is a coming of age film in which a group of high-school-and-college age- teenagers sign up for several months of training aboard a sail ship, a brigantine, and travel around half the globe when suddenly they are challenged by a severe storm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Squall_(film)
Here are some refs to "17" in the film"
There are 17 crew members.
In the film there is a scene where a Cuban patrol boat captain and a few crew members board the Albatross to harass its crew. The situation de-escalates when a convoy of warships appears on the horizon... which the voice over explains to have been on their way to "a little know destination known as the Bay of Pigs."
Bay of Pigs D-Day was 4/17/61
White Squall DVD was re-released on 11/17/19.
And an odd bit of trivia...
The maritime hearing (final scene) to investigate the shipwreck of the Albatross takes place on October 1, 1961.
In the film, on the day before the hearing, the surviving boys are discussing what had happened, and one of the boys is reading a newspaper with a front page headline about the hearing and that newspaper is dated 30 September 1961.
The oddity is, the actual article under the headline is about Robert McNamara's memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995), which had just been released. The film was released in February of 1996, which put principle filming in 1995 when the book was released and the article was written (byline Lolita Huckaby). The headline and name of the newspaper were mocked up over the article.