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Box office. $1.7 million (US rentals) [2] The Navy Comes Through is a 1942 American World War II film directed by A. Edward Sutherland. It stars Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Jane Wyatt. Vernon L. Walker and James G. Stewart were nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. [3] The film was based on Borden Chase 's 1939 short story "Pay to ...
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in November 1942. 1: Operation Supercharge, the Allied breakout at El Alamein, begins. On Guadalcanal, the Americans begin the Matanikau Offensive against the Japanese. 3: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of ...
World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command. "Never was so much owed by so many to so few"[a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1] The name stems from the specific line in the ...
Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II.It was originally written for American soldiers to help them understand why the United States was involved in the war, but US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered distribution for public viewing.
The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech, was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and declared war on ...
e. Part of the American Film Institute 's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [ 1 ] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many ...
The Glass Key, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. The Goose Steps Out, starring Will Hay – (GB) The Great Impersonation, directed by John Rawlins, starring Ralph Bellamy. The Great King (Der große König) – (Germany) The Great Man's Lady, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Barbara Stanwyck.