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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 ...
Dhaani means light green. It has come from a word called 'Dhaan' that is the outer covering of a raw grain of rice (kacha chawal ka daana).The green color of that grain is called dhaani.
The Expendables were a 1980s band based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fronted by singer-songwriter/guitarist Jay Clarkson , the band grew out of her former bands, They Were Expendable and The Playthings , and released a single and album in 1984 on the Flying Nun label.
They Were Expendable: John Ford: PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) United States This Man's Navy: William A. Wellman: Adventure. US Navy airships: Italy The Timeless House † La casa senza tempo: Andrea Forzano: Enemy spies try to steal the blueprints of a new airplane [17] United States Too Young to Know: Frederick De Cordova
They Were Expendable was a Book of the Month Club selection, as well. [1] He served for a time as an overseer of Harvard. [2] He was elected to the board of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1950. [6] He became an officer of a group formed to aid Russian refugees in 1951, the American Committee for Freedom for the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. [7]
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]
Montgomery had started directing on 1945's They Were Expendable, substituting for John Ford when Ford was ill, and made his credited directorial debut in 1947 with Lady in the Lake. He had also produced for television before, but The Gallant Hours was the first feature film he both directed and produced. It turned out to be his last involvement ...
Junoon (Urdu: جنون transl. Obsession/Passion) is a Pakistani sufi rock band from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and Tappan, New York, formed in 1990. [1] [2] [3]The band is directed by founder, lead guitarist and songwriter, Salman Ahmad, who was soon joined by keyboardist Nusrat Hussain, bass guitarist Brian O'Connell and vocalist Ali Azmat. [4]