The Fighting Seabees (1944)
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.
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.