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They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed.The film is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by William Lindsay White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a United States PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of ...
Three of his books were adapted into feature Hollywood films: They Were Expendable, Journey for Margaret, and Lost Boundaries, based on the true story of Dr. Albert C. Johnston and his African Americans family passing as white in New England. They Were Expendable was a Book of the Month Club selection, as well. [1]
They Died with Their Boots On: 1941: 1988: Turner Entertainment [3] [699] They Drive by Night: 1940: 1988: American Film Technologies [700] They Live by Night: 1948: 1992: Turner Entertainment [701] They Were Expendable: 1945: 1988: Turner Entertainment [3] [702] They Won't Believe Me: 1947: 1993: Turner Entertainment [703] Thicker than Water ...
The Expendables, a group of elite mercenaries who carry out all sorts of missions, ranging from assassination to rescue, are deployed to a South American island, Vilena, to overthrow a Latin American dictator, General Garza, who is interfering with the plans of a group of "people" led by a man known only as Mr. Church.
About Jack Benny But Were Afraid to Ask: TV special 1971–1976 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: TV series (6 episodes) 1971 The American West of John Ford: Documentary 1971, 1975 V.I.P. Schaukel: TV series (2 episodes) 1972 The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men: Short documentary Cancel My Reservation: The 44th Annual Academy ...
As the film notes, there were about a half-million people — mostly Hispanics and Native Americans — living within a 150-mile (241.4-kilometer) radius of the blast.
Bulkeley's PT-boat heroics in defending the Philippines from Japanese invasion in 1941-1942 was the subject of the novel "They Were Expendable" by William Lindsay White in 1942, which was turned into the big screen epic They Were Expendable three years later by director John Ford, starring John Wayne, with Robert Montgomery playing a somewhat ...
Wead would later use the "Requiem" inscribed on Stevenson's tomb as script material for several screenplays, such as They Were Expendable, and screenplay writers Frank Fenton and William Wister Haines used the poem in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wings of Eagles. [33]