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Higgins revealed to Magnum that he wasn't one of the prisoners the Japanese forced to build the bridge over the "Kwai" river. The show could've used that as a great moment to tell something about the actual history of building the bridge over the Mae Klong River, and that Magnum
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American playing an Englishman or vice versa. It's called acting and happens all the time. This whole character though was poorly researched, not least as you pointed out the suffix of "III" or, to add another example, when he refers to Magnum's attorney he
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Higgins’s admirer/ side-kick/ lady-friend, Agatha? There seems to be a theme of unrequited love there, at least from her, as she willingly participates in many of Higgins’s
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Higgins build a model of the wooden bridge from the movie instead of the actual concrete and steel bridge? Why does he call it the Kwai river when it was actually the Mae Klong? Either the writers decided the audience is a pack of know-nothings or Higgins is
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American name - "III" is purely American. How can an RMS be described as representing "pomposity, elitism, and stuffiness"- those are not attibutes of an RSM, who are usually very practical, forceful and of working class origin. Why would a British soldier
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in his own right. He also has a sister, who is currently "married and living in Sussex with four monstrous children" (ep. 1.10). He later discovered his father (Albert) had sired several other sons (all played by John
Hillerman) during World War I, including; Father Paddy McGuiness, who is a
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addition to the article more than two years ago, claiming that
Higgins had a cojoined twin. The information is not verified at the source they added. Plus, I have the unedited version of the episode on DVD, and there's no mention there either. I have removed the claim and the reference.
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British trooops. Dalzel-Job was ordered not to organise an impromptu evacuation of civilians from Narvik - that is very different from being ordered to shoot Jews. No wonder Americans are disliked, making such nasty comments.
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have served in Indo China? British troops in Palestine did not shoot refugees. That is a scurrilious and unwarranted attack on their reputation. Finally, why was this role played by an American? Why not simply have the character an American as
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