The film starts with a ship full of marines in the South Pacific. They are bonding and joking around and you may well feel that this is a film about homosexuality and that it's actually called GuadalAnal Diary. Well, after the scene has been set, it actually turns into a war film. The cast of characters are assigned a mission and attack a Japanese occupied island. What lies ahead of them? This is based on a campaign that happened for real.
It's a good film with memorable scenes including a platoon's total annihilation bar one soldier – Anthony Quinn (Soose) – who literally runs for his life. The most memorable character is probably William Bendix (Taxi), possibly because he is the loudest, but he provides an effective everyman speech as the end looks imminent for him and his comrades as they are holed up sheltering from a bombing campaign. The words are simple and they are followed by an "Amen" that is said by Lloyd Nolan (Hook) . I think it's Nolan – I can't remember. Someone says it though. It switches the scene from being potentially corny to being a moving episode.
Definitely one of the best war films of this year (1943) along with "Hostages", "A Guy Named Joe", "Bataan", "The Adventures of Tartu", "Five Graves To Cairo", "The Strange Death of Adolph Hitler" and "The Silver Fleet". Check them out.
It's a good film with memorable scenes including a platoon's total annihilation bar one soldier – Anthony Quinn (Soose) – who literally runs for his life. The most memorable character is probably William Bendix (Taxi), possibly because he is the loudest, but he provides an effective everyman speech as the end looks imminent for him and his comrades as they are holed up sheltering from a bombing campaign. The words are simple and they are followed by an "Amen" that is said by Lloyd Nolan (Hook) . I think it's Nolan – I can't remember. Someone says it though. It switches the scene from being potentially corny to being a moving episode.
Definitely one of the best war films of this year (1943) along with "Hostages", "A Guy Named Joe", "Bataan", "The Adventures of Tartu", "Five Graves To Cairo", "The Strange Death of Adolph Hitler" and "The Silver Fleet". Check them out.