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The Flying Leathernecks
1951
Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal... Read more
| Starring | John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter |
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| Director | Nicholas Ray |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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This trite reworking by Nicholas Ray of many themes (and characters) familiar from films such as Howard Hawks's masterly 1943 movie Air Force is corny, obvious and not really good enough. John Wayne and particularly Robert Ryan seem distinctly uncomfortable in their leading roles, flying studio mock-ups of planes against Technicolor back projection and dutifully conveying a gung-ho spirit without any real enthusiasm. The acting honours are stolen by grizzled veteran Jay C Flippen, who's well cast as a wily sergeant, but this must go down as another terribly disappointing early work from Ray, whose Rebel without a Cause remains a key movie of the 1950s.
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Empty, violent war actioner full of phoney heroics.
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THIS BLACK AND WHITE FILM IS STAGED IN THE EARLY ONSET OF WAR - WHEN CALL UP WAS RAMPENT AND ALL WAS EXPECTED TO DO THIER PART FOR KING AND COUNTRY ,PROPAGANDA... more
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
OLD SCHOOL
THIS BLACK AND WHITE FILM IS STAGED IN THE EARLY ONSET OF WAR - WHEN CALL UP WAS RAMPENT AND ALL WAS EXPECTED TO DO THIER PART FOR KING AND COUNTRY ,PROPAGANDA... more
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Critics' reviews (2)
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This trite reworking by Nicholas Ray of many themes (and characters) familiar from films such as Howard Hawks's masterly 1943 movie Air Force is corny, obvious and not really good enough. John Wayne and particularly Robert Ryan seem distinctly uncomfortable in their leading roles, flying studio mock-ups of planes against Technicolor back projection and dutifully conveying a gung-ho spirit without any real enthusiasm. The acting honours are stolen by grizzled veteran Jay C Flippen, who's well cast as a wily sergeant, but this must go down as another terribly disappointing early work from Ray, whose Rebel without a Cause remains a key movie of the 1950s.
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Empty, violent war actioner full of phoney heroics.
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