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Wake Island (1942)
Directed by John Farrow
“Leathernecks... writing another glorious chapter of purposeful courage in America's history!”
War, Action, Drama · 1h 27m
In late 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.
Cast
Brian Donlevy
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
Macdonald Carey
Lt. Bruce Cameron
Robert Preston
Pvt. Joe Doyle
William Bendix
Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall
Albert Dekker
Shad McClosky
Walter Abel
Cmdr. Roberts
Mikhail Rasumny
Ivan Probenzky
Rod Cameron
Capt. Pete Lewis
Bill Goodwin
Sgt. Higbee / Narrator (voice)
Damian O'Flynn
Capt. Bill Patrick
Frank Albertson
Johnny Rudd
J
Joyce Arleen
Cynthia Caton (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- John Farrow
- Screenplay
- Frank Butler, W.R. Burnett
- Director of Photography
- Theodor Sparkuhl, William C. Mellor
- Original Music Composer
- David Buttolph
- Editor
- LeRoy Stone, Frank Bracht
- Producer
- Joseph Sistrom
Details
- Release date
- 1942-08-11
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- War, Action, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures