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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 ...
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 ...
Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American actress.Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films.
They Died with Their Boots On: 1941: 1988: Turner Entertainment [2] [644] They Live by Night: 1948: 1992: Turner Entertainment [645] They Were Expendable: 1945: 1988: Turner Entertainment [2] [646] They Won't Believe Me: 1947: 1993: Turner Entertainment [647] Thicker than Water: 1935: 1991: Hal Roach Studios [91] [648] The Thin Man: 1934: 1992 ...
Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Seán Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or Ó Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894, [8] (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). [9]
The new trailer for the film, from Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho, dropped Tuesday, featuring Robert Pattinson as an employee who is duplicated after being asked to continuously die for his job.
Frank Wilbur [N 1] "Spig" Wead (24 October 1895 – 15 November 1947) was a U.S. Navy aviator who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.
John Wayne plays naval aviator-turned-screenwriter Wead, who wrote the story or screenplay for such films as Hell Divers (1931) with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, Ceiling Zero (1936) with James Cagney, and the Oscar-nominated World War II drama They Were Expendable (1945) in which Wayne co-starred with Robert Montgomery. [5]