War: Gung Ho! / The Big Lift / Blood on the Sun / Go For Broke! / Three Came Home
"Gung Ho!" Randolph Scott, Rod Cameron, J. Carroll Naish and Robert Mitchum star in this blood-and-guts Marine saga which heralds the true story of Carlson's Raiders in the Pacific during World War II. "The Big Lift"Filmed on location in post-WWII Germany, this tense drama stars Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas as members of a U.S. Air Force unit charged with flying in supplies during the 1948 Berlin Airlift to counter a Soviet blockade of the divided city. "Blood on the Sun" Blood On The Sun [DVD] (1945) Hard-hitting newspaperman James Cagney, stationed in 1930s Japan, finds himself caught in an espionage plot when he tries to warn American officials about the growing threat of war. Terrific action-drama co-stars Sylvia Sydney, Robert Armstrong. "Go For Broke!" They were the 442nd Regiment...a squad of loyal Japanese-Americans who had to battle prejudice as well as the Axis enemy. Van Johnson stars as their contemptuous topkick, whose bigotry gives way to respect in the crucible of war. With Warner Anderson, Lane Nakano. "Three Came Home" Claudette Colbert stars as American author Agnes Newton Keith, who, along with her British husband, was arrested and held in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Powerful true account of her harrowing experiences co-stars Patric Knowles and Sessue Hayakawa as the camp commander.
Year: 1950
Genre: War and Anti-War Films
Director: Frank Lloyd, George Seaton, Jean Negulesco, Ray Enright
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Randolph Scott, Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Van Johnson, Claudette Colbert
Duration: 420 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains medium level violence.
6.3/10
Location in store: War
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