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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
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1 March 1950 (USA)
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Fightin' . . Laughin' . . Lovin' ! more
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A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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Life Imitates Art
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Wayne | ... | Sgt. John M. Stryker |
 | John Agar | ... | Pfc. Peter Conway |
| Adele Mara | ... | Allison Bromley |
| Forrest Tucker | ... | Pfc. Al Thomas |
| Wally Cassell | ... | Pfc. Benny Regazzi |
| James Brown | ... | Pfc. Charlie Bass |
| Richard Webb | ... | Pfc. 'Handsome' Dan Shipley |
| Arthur Franz | ... | Cpl. Robert Dunne / Narrator |
| Julie Bishop | ... | Mary |
| James Holden | ... | Pfc. Soames |
| Peter Coe | ... | Pfc. George Hellenpolis |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Pfc. Frank Flynn |
| William Murphy | ... | Pfc. Eddie Flynn (as Bill Murphy) |
| George Tyne | ... | Pfc. Harris |
| Hal Baylor | ... | Pvt. 'Sky' Choynski (as Hal Fieberling) |
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100 min | Germany:97 min | USA:109 min (TCM print)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Iceland:12 |
USA:Approved (PCA #14111) |
West Germany:12 (f) |
UK:PG |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15
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In one scene, combat veteran Sgt. Stryker (John Wayne) instructs bumbling recruit Pvt. Choynski (Hal Baylor) on the correct way to march and hold a rifle. In real life Baylor was an ex-Marine who fought in the battles of Saipan and Tinian in WW II; Wayne had never served in the military.
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Continuity: The way Mary holds the whiskey bottle changes.
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Sgt. Stryker:
Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
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Referenced in "The Simpsons: Rome-old and Juli-eh (#18.15)" (2007)
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I don't know about currently, but some years ago this film was being shown at the Marine Corps Basic School where second lieutenants are hatched. It's an unexcelled example of military life imitating art: a symbiotic relationship between the Corps' timeless self image and, by extension, that image reinforcing the reality of the Corps itself.
SOIJ is still one of the better WW II combat films, even 55 years after its release. The one factual glitch is the impossibility of a Tarawa unit (2nd Marine Division) being ashore on Iwo (3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions.) Otherwise, I don't think I've never known a marine who had serious reservations about it.