Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Genres - Drama, War |
Sub-Genres - Combat Films |
Release Date - Oct 27, 1943 (USA - Unknown), Oct 27, 1943 (USA) |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the spare, lean prose of Tregaskis' eyewitness account. The incidents in the "diary" are tied together by an off-screen narrator into a cohesive storyline. The principal characters in this wartime chronicle are marine sergeant Lloyd Nolan, chaplain Preston S. Foster, Mexican enlistee Anthony Quinn, and a Dodgers-lovin' Brooklynite, played by William Bendix.
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war, bishop, cab-driver, invasion, island, Marines, military, platoon, revenge, sniper
