Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima

Flying Tigers John Wayne plays the tough commander of Flying Tigers, the famous fighter squadron that fought to save China from the Japanese. Wayne finds he is fighting a war on two fronts: he's taking on the enemy with only a handful of inexperienced men and patched-up planes while keeping a cocky new pilot from stealing his girl. The story has little in common with real history, and lots of classic post-Pearl Harbor propaganda fills the script. Regardless, the movie is all Wayne's, and Wayne fans will enjoy seeing the prototype for what would become the Duke's trademark portrayal of the military fighting man. Although the pressure of making life-and-death decisions in wartime may be more maturely explored in Twelve O'Clock High, Flying Tigers still has enough characterization and action to keep the viewer's attention (not to mention special effects by the pioneering Howard Lydecker). --Mark Savary Sands of Iwo Jima John Wayne's old studio home, Republic, made this 1949 drama about the heroic capture of an important island in the Pacific by marines in World War II. Director Allan Dwan (Brewster's Millions), a pioneering filmmaker from the silent days of cinema who easily crossed over into sound, handles the action sequences like a consummate pro, while Wayne works hard as the tough sergeant molding new recruits into fighters. John Agar plays a contentious surrogate son to Wayne, though the relationship is hardly the stuff of Red River. --Tom Keogh

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Production: Republic Pictures Home Video
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1949
100
2,794 Views
Alone and outnumbered, they had one thing in their favor... the American dream.
A great human story... makes a mighty motion picture.

'[During the night the squad is guarding a trenchline amid a threat of Japanese counterattack, and hears a faint voice calling "Corpsman"]

PFC Benny Regazzi:
[whispering] Stryker!

Sgt. Stryker:
[whispering] Get down! Stay down! You have your orders, don't move!

PFC Peter Conway:
[whispering] There's somebody wounded out there.

Sgt. Stryker:
Quiet.

PFC Peter Conway:
Let's go get him!

Sgt. Stryker:
(as Conway starts out of the trench Stryker shoves him back down) Stay down, it might be a Jap trick, they pulled it off plenty of times at Guadalcanal.

PFC Peter Conway:
That doesn't sound like a Jap to me!

Sgt. Stryker:
I don't care what it sounds like to you! You stick your head up, you'll tip our position.

[the voice resumes, and now they recognize it as Bass]

PFC Charlie Bass:
Stryker!

PFC Peter Conway:
That's Bass. How many Japs know your name, Stryker? That's Bass, you know his voice!

Sgt. Stryker:
Shut up.

PFC Peter Conway:
Aren't you human at all? Don't you know a friend of yours might be dying?

Sgt. Stryker:
(still anxious to avoid a confrontation) Knock it off!

PFC Peter Conway:
(uncontrollably seething) Just like my father taught you, be a good Marine, be tough! Well you can sit here and be tough if you want to, but I'm going on to get that guy and the only way you can stop me is to kill me!

(but as Conway starts out of the trench Stryker jams his rifle into his face and chambers a round)

Sgt Stryker:
That's JUST what I'll do!

(After a few tense moments Conway returns to the trench as Bass continues to plead for Stryker, and Stryker can be seen sweating ever more, fearing he indeed is letting a friend die)


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