The Gypsy Moths

Guest host Michael Phillips introduces The Gypsy Moths, 1969.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Gypsy Moths, 1969.

The opening of director John Frankenheimer's action-thriller-melodrama, his last film with star Burt Lancaster, who's hot-dogging the parachute jump, worrying partners Gene Hackman and Scott Wilson, from The Gypsy Moths, 1969. co-starring Deborah Kerr.

All three of the sky-dive barnstormers are stir-crazy, stuck in the rain at the home of Elizabeth (Deborah Kerr), who’s having a fling with Mike (Burt Lancaster), and who is the until-recently estranged aunt of Malcolm (Scott Wilson), who gets into a scrape with financially-motivated Browdy (Gene Hackman), in The Gypsy Moths, 1969.

Neither apparently remembering having played in the Hawaiian surf, Deborah Kerr (as Kansas housewife Elizabeth) and Burt Lancaster (as her guest, touring sky-diver Mike, a colleague of her long lost nephew) find themselves drawn to each other, in John Frankenheimer's The Gypsy Moths, 1969.

Scott Wilson (as "Malcolm") brings his barnstroming sky-diver buddies Mike and Joe (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman) to the Kansas home of his long-estranged aunt and uncle (Deborah Kerr, William Windom), offering only tentative hospitality, early in John Frankenheimer's The Gypsy Moths, 1969.