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Aug 21, 2014 · Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines -- including PT-boat skipper...
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Oct 26, 2019 · Product Description. In the wake of Pearl Harbor's surprise attack, World War II hero, Lt. John Brickley's experimental squadron of agile fast-attack Patrol Torpedo boats is sent to warm and humid Manila to avert a potentially imminent Japanese invasion. As he and his second-in-command, Lieutenant "Rusty" Ryan, desperately try to prove the ...
They Were Expendable. "Dad" Knowlton, the shipwright who repairs the PT boats, has a poignant little scene in which he refuses to leave the place he's lived and worked for forty years, although the Japanese are advancing. Rusty Ryan, John Wayne 's character, finally leaves Dad sitting alone on his porch with a rifle in his hands and a jug of ...
They Were Expendable. 86 Metascore. 1945. 2 hr 15 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. A saga of the PT boats and the sailors who manned them in the Philippines during WWII. Inspired by actual events.
They Were Expendable is a 1945 American World War II movie directed by John Ford and was based on the 1942 novel of the same name by William Lindsay White. It stars Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Donald Curtis, Jeff York and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It ...
They Were Expendable. Heroic PT boat captains fight Japanese ships in the World War II Philippines. 1,964 IMDb 7.2 2 h 14 min 1945. 7+ Military and War ...
They Were Expendable (1945) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
