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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
War /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Allan Dwan
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Actors:
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Forrest Tucker,
Adele Mara,
George Tyne,
Wally Cassell,
James Holden,
William Murphy,
John Wayne,
John Agar,
James Brown,
Richard Webb,
Arthur Franz,
Julie Bishop,
Peter Coe,
Richard Jaeckel,
Hal Baylor
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Duration:
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100 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)78.5
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Plot Summary:
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John Marion Stryker is the final Marine, a tough rifle party leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of immature recruits saddled with three veterans and an old contender of Stryker's from previous duties in the Long way East. One recruit in particlar is a source of strife with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose progenitor was Stryker's CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and pusillanimous to be a Seafaring. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker's increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of tenderness for the diversified personal problems of the recruits, but hi... s determination to mold them into fighting men helps set free their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his animation to punch up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The instantly conflict-tested gang becomes more closely-knit and Stryker's relationship with the men warms as the force done finds itself in the bloodiest island competition of the in dispute, at Iwo Jima.
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John Wayne in his Prime
John Wayne at he peak of his career - made for the part and carried off well. Made only 4 years after the end of WW2, and therefore audiences had had enough of so called 'gritty reality', they had just lived through 4 years of it, and wanted escapism and a new taste of the 'yellow brick road' where all turns out well and can retire with a warm glow. As a consequence its full of jingoistic themes, 'mom's apple pie', 'mid-west college kid makes good', 'nasty sgt is a great guy after all' yaddie yadda - and I for one cant blame them. The mindset after just living through it was different to our cosy existence 60 years later. A very good movie, well made that still retains an educational flavour of what they had to do during WW2. Well worth a ...
Iwo Jima
As a recent visitor to Washington DC and seeing the Iwo Jima memorial, I wanted to see the movie to get a feeling of what they had to go through over there. John Wayne is one of the great actors, who pulls off every move with style, and no more so than in Iwo Jima. A great movie, recommended to all.
Sands of Iwo Jima
John Wayne slipped into characteristically loyalist keen and won himself his first Oscar nomination in this tub-thumping paean to the men of the US Oceanic Women who saw combat in the Pacific during the Right hand Everyone Campaign. The Duke plays tough-as-old-strive against-boots sergeant John Stryker, charged with whipping a ragtag collect of unheard of recruits into lines preceding the time when leading them into quarrel against "the nips" on the sands of Iwo Jima. Racist, jingoistic, and extraordinarily infatuated with the power of establishment (military, moral and American), Sands of Iwo Jima is a crude wedge of propaganda that's as dull as it is self-ethical. With all the lunk-headed posturing of a military recruitment bill, it's a shamelessly macho li...
Sands of Iwo Jima
Illustrious play facetious, at rest surely hypnotic in its flagwaving way.
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