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Pride of the Marines is a 1945 American biographical war film starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker.It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent rehabilitation.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Combat Obscura has a 100% score, [13] whereas on Metacritic, it has an average of 56%, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [14] Some reviewers contrasted the film negatively with Restrepo, another war documentary which employed a similar style of filmmaking, but included interviews, and suggested that Combat Obscura's lack of context made it difficult to understand.
The movie is based on the recollections of U.S. Marine Lt. Col Michael Strobl, a real person, who accompanied the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, a Marine fatally wounded by gunfire near Baghdad during the Iraq War, from Dover Air Force Base to Dubois, Wyoming in April 2004.
A little more than halfway through “Father Soldier Son,” a documentary that follows a military family over the course of a tumultuous decade, former serviceman Brian Eisch takes his sons out ...
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert of This Week at the Movies: The Movie Review Program both gave the film a thumbs down. [9] In his Chicago Sun-Times review of Uncommon Valor , Ebert gave the film a mixed 2-out-of-4 star review that described the squandering of "first-rate talent" like Kotcheff and Hackman in a film that was little more than "two ...
Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American war film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film.The film co-stars Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, and Mario Van Peebles, and was released in the United States on December 5, 1986.
Arriving at a friendly Filipino village, Corey and Grenier are able to escape a Japanese patrol by boat. But Miyazaki is killed by an officer she seduced to buy the guys some time. At last discovering the principles of mission accomplishment, altruism, and self-sacrifice through observation, Grenier becomes a squared away Marine. He and his ...
David Vernon Cox (November 27, 1966 – January 5, 1994) was a U.S. Marine who was found murdered in Medfield, Massachusetts. [1] Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play A Few Good Men and the 1992 film adaptation of the same name were based partly on events that Cox was a part of, while he was in the Marines.