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Gung Ho (released in Australia and New Zealand as Working Class Man) [2] is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton. [3] The story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title phrase is an Americanized Chinese term). A short-lived TV series based on the film ...
- Deborah Blum, Tony Ganz
- Thomas Newman
- March 14, 1986
- Michael Keaton
Gung Ho: Directed by Ron Howard. With Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Mimi Rogers. When a Japanese automobile company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
- Ron Howard
- 2 min
Box office. $2,176,489 [1] Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott. The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson 's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.
- Ray Enright
- Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Hoffman
- Walter Wanger
- Lt. W. S. LeFrançois USMCR (based on his Saturday Evening Post story "We Mopped Up Makin Island")
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"Gung Ho" is advertised as a clash of cultures after the Japanese reopen the automobile factory in a small Pennsylvania town. That sounded promising. I guess I was hoping for one of those movies made out of loving attention to detail, in which we and the Japanese would both be treated like eccentric laboratory specimens. What I got was a disappointment, a movie in which the Japanese are mostly ...
Gung Ho! Released Dec 20, 1943 1 hr. 28 min. War List. Reviews 49% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score During the Pacific phase of World War II, Marine Col. Thorwald (Randolph Scott) puts together a ...
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- Randolph Scott
- Ray Enright
- Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Rated: 3/5 • Jun 6, 2005. When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) faces the tricky challenge of mediating ...
Synopsis. In a town in rural Pennsylvania, the car factory has been shut down, leaving the town economically distressed. A Japanese company, Assan Motors, has purchased the factory, but will need to be convinced that it is worth re-opening. Hunt Stevenson goes to Japan to make a presentation to Assan's management, and the result is that Assan ...
