IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.7K
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Young Marines have adventures in love and war.Young Marines have adventures in love and war.Young Marines have adventures in love and war.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
L.Q. Jones
- Pvt. L.Q. Jones
- (as Justus E. McQueen)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLeon Uris, author of the novel on which the film is based, served during World War II as a radio man in the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, both the same military occupational specialty and organization of the novel and film's characters. Uris was engaged in combat during the Guadalcanal and Tarawa campaigns, being evacuated with malaria before the novel and film's climactic Saipan campaign.
- GoofsMrs. Pat Rogers speaks with an American accent even though she's from New Zealand.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh (2014)
- SoundtracksMarine Hymn
(uncredited)
Music by Jacques Offenbach from "Geneviève de Brabant"
Lyrics attributed to L.Z. Phillips
Played during the opening credits and at various times throughout the picture
Sung by a chorus at the end
Featured review
Peyton Place set to the Marine Corp hymn.
Let me start by saying I really enjoyed this film and have watched it perhaps a half dozen times. The comments by Mr. Glassey do seem unfair to me. This movie doesnt show us the guts and bloodshed and realism that is accepted and maybe even expected by todays standards but it does show the loss of war. The fear of war and the heroism that was a part of being a marine in WWII. It shows us 3 dimensional characters like "High Pockets" who loves his men as much as he loves the Marines. Yes, I suppose some of the situations are glossed over but that is to be expected when you are trying to tell a story this big in the time alloted. The beginning and middle of the film which focus' on training and shipping over seas to New Zealand is first rate entertainment. The last third where we go into combat with the cast is not as realistic as modern films, but how can it be? It is 1955 when this movie was made and the technology to show how war really looks was not possible then. And even if one may argue that it was, the desire and allowable limits of the day would have precluded that sort of realism anyway. All in all, this is a fair if not excellent portrait of marines going to war.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Urlaub bis zum Wecken
- Filming locations
- Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, USA(as Camp Elliott)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $17,440,000
- Runtime2 hours 29 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.55 : 1
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