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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 14, 1998
Budget $1,000,000
MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country USA
Studio Republic
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Other Titles
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• Du warst unser Kamerad (1952)
• Iwo Jima, die große Schlacht (1952)
• Todeskommando (1952)
• Todeskommando - Du warst unser Kamerad (1952)
• Todeskommando Iwo Jima (1952)
• Iwo Jima, deserto di fuoco (1949)
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Genre: Action, Romance, War, Drama, World War II, Military, Suspense, Cult Classic
Tagline: Alone and outnumbered, they had one thing in their favor... the American dream.
Plot: The legendary gung-ho WWII combat film, stars John Wayne as the battle-hardened Sgt. Stryker, a role that would, perhaps more than any other, come to define the actor's iconography. As he begins to hammer an ethnically diverse group of recruits into combat-ready shape, they learn of his notorious toughness, and of the mystery surrounding his demotion. Stryker finds that Pete Conway (John Agar) the son of his late commanding officer, hated his father and hates Stryker for his likeness to the man. After Stryker and his unit have been fighting on Tarawa Atoll, Cpl. Al Thomas (Forrest Tucker) neglects his post, resulting in the death of one man and the wounding of another. While the squad listens to the moans of Bass (James Brown) the wounded man, Stryker, following orders to entrench, refuses to let anyone help him. Bass is rescued, and when he sees Stryker in Hawaii, tells him about Thomas' screw-up. Stryker and Thomas get into a fight which is stopped by a major, but Thomas accepts the blame, knowing Stryker's career could be destroyed, and begs his forgiveness for his dereliction of duty. The unit is ready to move on to its toughest challenge: Iwo Jima. Like nearly all films made during the period, it's hardly a paradigm of realism, but within its limits it remains a very
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| Directed by |
Allan Dwan
Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Robin Hood |
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| Written by |
Harry Brown
El Dorado, A Walk in the Sun, The Virgin Queen | |
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| Cast |
John Wayne
The Searchers, The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo |
 | John Agar
King Kong, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Miracle Mile |
 | Adele Mara
Wake of the Red Witch, You Were Never Lovelier, Back from Eternity | | Wally Cassell
White Heat, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Story of G.I. Joe | | Richard Webb
Out of the Past, Sullivan's Travels, The Big Clock | |
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| Music By |
Victor Young
The Quiet Man, Shane, Around the World in Eighty Days |
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