Marine Raiders

original title:
Marine Raiders
other titles:
(Ledernacken)
country / year of production:
USA / 1944
original length:
90 min. , black/white
premiere:
30 June 1944, New York City
genre:
Propaganda film
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director:
Harold D. Schuster
film script:
Martin Rackin , Warren Duff
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cast (role):
Pat O'Brien , Robert Ryan , Ruth Hussey
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plot synopsis:
This film is a wartime propaganda movie and deals with the Guadalcanal invasion. Two Marine officers and their company spend their holiday in Australia. There one of the officers falls in love with a woman. But both offiers are send back to the USA to train recruits. On a mission they return to Australia, where the lovers get married shortly before the husband has to join the battle.
keywords:
navy , Pacific ocean , women during wartime , special forces , comradeship , Gaudalcanal
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Edwin Howard Simmons. The United States Marines. A history. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

Richard Tregaskis. Guadalcanal diary. New York: Random House, 1984.
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