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The Fighting Seabees (1944)

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Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis:

A civil engineer hothead and a by-the-book naval officer work together to create a battalion of construction workers armed and trained to defend themselves against Japanese attack during the war in the Pacific; and fall for the same girl.

Review:

Vigorous Republic actioner with a predictably flagwaving agenda - and some hilarious close-up shots of grinning Nippon snipers. Wayne swaggers his way through, barely breaking a sweat, but Susan Hayward was never lovelier, and the combat sequences are full-blooded enough, even though they strictly follow the tit-for-tat logic of war movie direction and editing.

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Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis:

A civil engineer hothead and a by-the-book naval officer work together to create a battalion of construction workers armed and trained to defend themselves against Japanese attack during the war in the Pacific; and fall for the same girl.

Review:

Vigorous Republic actioner with a predictably flagwaving agenda - and some hilarious close-up shots of grinning Nippon snipers. Wayne swaggers his way through, barely breaking a sweat, but Susan Hayward was never lovelier, and the combat sequences are full-blooded enough, even though they strictly follow the tit-for-tat logic of war movie direction and editing.


Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis:

A civil engineer hothead and a by-the-book naval officer work together to create a battalion of construction workers armed and trained to defend themselves against Japanese attack during the war in the Pacific; and fall for the same girl.

Review:

Vigorous Republic actioner with a predictably flagwaving agenda - and some hilarious close-up shots of grinning Nippon snipers. Wayne swaggers his way through, barely breaking a sweat, but Susan Hayward was never lovelier, and the combat sequences are full-blooded enough, even though they strictly follow the tit-for-tat logic of war movie direction and editing.

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