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Wake Island: Directed by John Farrow. With Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix. December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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- Action, Drama, War
- John Farrow
- 1942-08-11
In June 1941, 4,254 air miles from San Francisco, Wake Island is taken over by two units of the Marine Corps: the Marine Fighting Squadron #211 of the Marine Aircraft Group 21, and the Wake Detachment of the First Defense Battalion.
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Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix.
89% Tomatometer 9 Reviews. 48% Audience Score 100+ Ratings. In the weeks before the Pearl Harbor attack, the Marines stationed on Wake Island have grown accustomed to a leisurely attitude.
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- Brian Donlevy
- John Farrow
- War
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert...
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This World War II film --- essentially a propaganda flick, given its release year of 1942 -- is concerned with the U.S. Marines' futile attempt to hold Wake Island, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, in the days following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor late in 1941.
