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After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan (John Wayne) frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley (Robert Montgomery) are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
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Genre: War
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Original Language: English
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Director: John Ford, Robert Montgomery
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Producer: John Ford
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Writer: William L. White, Frank Wead
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment
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Production Co: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
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Sound Mix: Mono
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Entertaining film about PT boats and how they were used in the first months of WWII. John Ford made this film during the last days of the war and he added every detail of realism he could. The action scenes are great and really intense. There is hardly any rear projection and shot with real backgrounds, explosions, and alot of intensity. For some reason most of the night scenes are shot real dark. The night raids are shot day for night, but the scenes between actors is just plain dark. It works, but it is still strange. It's also strange that John Wayne is second banana in this film, but he excels in the role. There is a small romance between Wayne and the beautiful Donna Reed that works really well and doesn't get in the way of the story.
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boring and uninteresting. if i could give this less than half a star i would. i was watching it on the box and somewhere from the start to the end i learnt to love adverts
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Another Wayne classis if you like that sort of stuff.....and I do.
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Hollywood's tribute to the PT boats of World War II and the brave men who served on them. This would make a fantastic double feature with Cliff Robertson's PT 109 (1963).
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