Wake Island
by John Farrow
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Actor: Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William BendixDirector: John Farrow
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Theodor Sparkuhl
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Editor: Frank Bracht
Editor: LeRoy Stone
Producer: Joseph Sistrom
Writer: Frank Butler
Writer: W.R. Burnett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Wake Island
DVD Review: History of 1st Marine's Battle with Japanese Troops at 1st US. Outpost !
Summary: 4 Stars
Battle of Wake Island started on 8,Dec,1941.
starting from Air and Naval bombardment for
14days. There were no way of Rescue,Reinforcment
or Supply. Day by Day, there was increasing
casualties of Marie garrison and civilians.
IT was relatibly well designd,good actors and
good Battle footage of Official Documentary(?!)
any way, recordong to official records of remaining
Marine garisson were overrunned by japanese landing
and Surrender.they had the good Fight !
DVD Review: Good
Summary: 3 Stars
Entertaining but inaccurate and misleading portrayal of the US Marines stalwart defence of Wake Island. DVD Review: A Great Movie Reference for WW2
Summary: 4 Stars
"Wake Island" is a movie shot right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Wake Island. The movie, therefore, has to be taken in the context of the times - creating great anger against inferior Japanese forces and raising up the temperature of American audiences for the coming fight for freedom. You get some great actors of their time in the film - Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston and the everyman William Bendix (always the Brooklyn guy in the army). Well worthwhile for the World War II junkie and historian. DVD Review: Wake Island
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the great movies of 'defeat' done in the 1940s to celebrate the heroism of the American forces overrun by the Japanese in the Pacific in the early months of WW2. It is very much 'fictionalised' and introduces the stock characters and heroic gestures that fill Hollywood war movies up to the 1980s about. An insight into the mood in which WW2 was perceived at the time. A precious piece of history!DVD Review: A Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a classic early WW2 movie. A rousing tale of the outnumbered garrison stationed on Wake Island. Well acted by Donlevy, Bendix and Preston. It's right up there with They Were Expendable, Guadalcanal Diary, and Battan. A must have for war movie buffs!
Description of Wake Island
Doomed marines hold off a japanese invasion for as long as they can december 1941. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/25/2004 Starring: Robert Preston Don Castle Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John FarrowWake Island, a sandbar rising 21 feet out of the South Pacific, was among the first U.S. outposts to be hit by the Japanese, virtually simultaneously with Pearl Harbor. Wake Island the movie was among Hollywood's earliest responses to America's being attacked and drawn into WWII. The Marine Corps defenders of Wake became instant war heroes, akin to the martyrs of the Alamo. Nothing could be done to rescue or even to reinforce and resupply them, and they fought on through air attacks and naval bombardment for two weeks until, finally overrun, they were wiped out.
That searing historical context had a lot to do with the movie's impact in 1942, and the sight of the dark forms of enemy planes coming over the horizon for the first time still carries a shock. Wake Island's a decent film, and it doesn't dishonor its subject with sham heroics and grandstanding. But the New York Film Critics voted John Farrow best director of 1942, and that's a reach. The first half hour sets up the allegory of America as melting pot (there's even a corporal named Goebbels), establishes horseplay as the coin of democratic discourse (especially for gyrenes Robert Preston and the Oscar-nominated William Bendix), and fosters familiar friction between new commander Brian Donlevy and civilian construction supervisor Albert Dekker. Then shortly after a beaming Japanese peace envoy has stopped by for dinner, things get rough. The scenes of warfare are more than adequate, but they'd soon be outdone, sometimes in films much less worthy than Wake Island. --Richard T. Jameson
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