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Wake Island: Directed by John Farrow. With Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix. December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Wake Island: Directed by John Farrow. With Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix. December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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- Action, Drama, War
- John Farrow
- 1942-08-11
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix.
Wake Island (1942) - Directed by John Farrow, produced by Joseph Sistrom and starring Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix, Albert Dekker, Walter Abel, Mikhail Rasumny, Rod Cameron,and more...
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This World War II film --- essentially a propaganda flick, given its release year of 1942 -- is concerned with the U.S. Marines' futile attempt to hold Wake Island, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, in the days following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor late in 1941.
Wake Island was the first WWII movie to be based on an actual battle - one which America lost. Wake Island was being used by the U.S. as a refueling station, and after being bombed, Japanese battleships and Marines soon arrived.
