Robert Montgomery
Lt. John Brickley
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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.
They Were Expendable: Directed by John Ford, Robert Montgomery. With Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt. A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
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- Drama, War
- John Ford, Robert Montgomery
- 1945-12-31
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II. Starring: Cameron Mitchell, John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed. Director: John Ford.
They Were Expendable (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Ryan's Guest Navy nurse and almost-girlfriend Sandy (Donna Reed) joins Rusty Ryan (John Wayne), his superior Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and cohorts for dinner and sentiment in the Philippines, in John Ford's They Were Expendable, 1945.
Understated and quietly heroic, the film eschews the usual Hollywood hype for a detailing of what the early days of the war were actually like: confusing, grim, disappointing, real.
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- War
- John Ford, Robert Montgomery
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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.
