Something about our 'bodily fluids'?
Can't find the article right now, something along the lines of: "Fluoride in drinking water. A subject Stanley Kubrick once saw fit to destroy the world over..." or something like that. The editor might even have cut it out ormade me tone it down as I remember now. Stupid editor.
The 1960s Alistair MacLean-based movies "The Guns of Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare" have a special attraction (though all those listed are excellent in one way or another) Pearl Harbor is a pale, sick joke by comparison.
http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/The there are these guys
Who really seem to suck bad.
http://www.thegunsofnavarone.com/If you like Alistair MacLean, then by all means buy HMS Ulysses. Excellent novel.
H.M.S. Ulysses is based on MacLean's own experiences during World War II [edit: mostly set on a Dido class AA crusier making a winter Murmansk run -- U-boats, JU88s, a Hipper(?)-class crusier]. For much of the war he worked on convoy ships delivering much-needed supplies to Britain, the Soviet Union, and other Allied nations. The work was perilous. MacLean was wounded twice by the Nazis and captured by the Japanese. The Japanese tortured him, pulling out his teeth "without benefit of anesthetic," as MacLean once remarked. The ordeal, Bob McKelvey noted in the Detroit Free Press:"...left him bearing a grudge against the Japanese
until his death."
Charon
