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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 ...
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 ...
These three boats were based at Mindanao until mid-April 1942, where two of them (PT-41 and PT-34) attacked the Kuma, scoring at least one hit. This was to be the squadron's last action: PT-34 was destroyed by Japanese aircraft, PT-35 had to be scuttled to avoid capture, and PT-41 was commandeered by the U.S. Army to defend Lake Lanao .
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 ...
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.
MTB Squadron 3's exploits in the Philippines in 1941–42 were portrayed in the 1942 book They Were Expendable by William L. White, and the 1945 film of the same name, in which the character of "Rusty Ryan", played by John Wayne, was based on Kelly.
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.
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