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The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr., and Jules Schermer. It was nominated for a now-discontinued Academy Award for Best Story.
The Sullivan brothers were five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who served together on the light cruiser USS Juneau. They were all killed in action when Juneau served in the Naval battle of Guadalcanal , November 13th, 1942.
The Fighting Sullivans: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan. The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Lloyd Bacon
- 1944-02-03
May 9, 2017 · In the late evening and early morning of November 12-13, 1942, the United States and Japan engaged in one of the most brutal naval battles of World War II.
- Bruce Kuklick
The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr., and Jules Schermer. It was nominated for a now-discontinued Academy Award for Best Story.
In this dramatization of a true story, five brothers from Iowa (James Cardwell, John Campbell, George Offerman Jr., John Alvin, Edward Ryan) grow up in an in...
- 112 min
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- LionHeart FilmWorks
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The Fighting Sullivans. Steven Spielberg has stated that both the story of the Niland brothers and the Sullivans brothers acted as his inspiration for making Saving Private Ryan. A Department of Defense Dependents Elementary School in Yokosuka, Japan is named after the five Sullivan brothers.
