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6,3/10
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Major Kirby führt die Wildcats-Staffel in die historische Schlacht um Guadalcanal im Zweiten Weltkrieg.Major Kirby führt die Wildcats-Staffel in die historische Schlacht um Guadalcanal im Zweiten Weltkrieg.Major Kirby führt die Wildcats-Staffel in die historische Schlacht um Guadalcanal im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
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- Auszeichnungen
- 1 wins total
Michael St. Angel
- Capt. Harold Jorgensen, Ops. Officer
- (as Steve Flagg)
Barry Brooks
- Squadron Commander
- (Nicht genannt)
Charles Brunner
- Charlie's Father
- (Nicht genannt)
Ausgewählte Rezension
Major Kirby (John Wayne) takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers Wildcats. The men are undisciplined as they are sent to the Guadalcanal battle. Everybody expected the squad's best flier Captain 'Grif' Griffin (Robert Ryan) to be the new commander but Kirby finds him unable to make the tough decisions.
The story is rather pedestrian wartime action. John Wayne is the hard but fair commander as his usual fare. He's a real man and the college boys are weak. He's there to make real men out of the boys. The movie is most compelling with the real color war footage. Howard Hughes paid for the Techicolor to weave in with the color footage. The action is pretty compelling and makes this more than another bland war story.
The story is rather pedestrian wartime action. John Wayne is the hard but fair commander as his usual fare. He's a real man and the college boys are weak. He's there to make real men out of the boys. The movie is most compelling with the real color war footage. Howard Hughes paid for the Techicolor to weave in with the color footage. The action is pretty compelling and makes this more than another bland war story.
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- 24. Mai 2015
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- WissenswertesJohn Wayne and Robert Ryan managed to put aside their vast political differences while making this film, although Ryan was appalled by Wayne's support for blacklisting, extending the Korean War by launching nuclear strikes on Chinese cities, and using military force to drive the Soviets out of eastern Europe. However they later did not get along at all while filming Der längste Tag (1962).
- PatzerAt about the 56 minute mark, the Navajo Indian pilot is shot in a dogfight. In the initial scene he is wounded in the right leg; in subsequent scenes, the wound is in the left leg.
- Zitate
Maj. Daniel Xavier Kirby: Are we all buttoned up?
Joan Kirby: Cat's out... doors locked. All secure sir.
- VerbindungenFeatured in The World According to Smith & Jones: War (1988)
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