Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Mar 30th   
Sands of Iwo Jima***                   

(US 1949)

Marine recruits are drilled into the toughest theatre of World War II invading the Japanese-occupied Pacific islands.
A suitable 70th anniversary for the Battle of Iwo Jima (see also Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima), with this full-blooded WWII actioner making excellent use of powerful stock footage from the battles themselves, but with reasonable dramatic exposition (and occasional romanticism) in between. One of the best records on film of the sheer dourness of combat.

Written by: Harry Brown, James Edward Grant.
Producer: Edmund Grainger.
Director: Allan Dwan.
Starring: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, John Agar, Adele Mara, Julie Bishop, Wally Cassell, James Brown, Richard Webb, Arthur Franz.
Photography: Reggie Lanning.
Music: Victor Young.



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