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Writer:
Robert Pirosh (written by)
Release Date:
22 September 1951 (Sweden)
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Plot:
The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
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"You see, Sir, I'm from Texas"
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Van Johnson | ... | Lt. Michael Grayson |
 | Lane Nakano | ... | Sam |
| George Miki | ... | Chick |
| Akira Fukunaga | ... | Frank |
| Ken K. Okamoto | ... | Kaz |
| Henry Oyasato | ... | Ohhara |
| Harry Hamada | ... | Masami |
| Henry Nakamura | ... | Tommy |
| Warner Anderson | ... | Col. Charles W. Pence |
| Don Haggerty | ... | Sgt. Wilson I. Culley |
| Gianna Maria Canale | ... | Rosina (as Gianna Canale) |
| Dan Riss | ... | Capt. Solari |
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Runtime:
92 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:PG |
USA:Approved (certificate #15001) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:15
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This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the 1950-1951 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.
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Revealing mistakes: In Italy, Lt Grayson's troops are fired on by two German soldiers positioned behind a broken wall on a high bluff. But rather than crouching behind the wall for maximum cover, they are standing. This makes them easy targets for Grayson's soldiers. Real snipers would have kept as low as possible behind the wall for maximum protection.
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Japanese-American Soldier: Kanakas. The ones from Hawaii. You know what they call us mainlanders? Kotonks. The way they tell it if you rap on our heads it's like hitting a coconut. Hollow heads, you know? Kotonk, kotonk, kotonk.
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Japanese-American Soldier: Kanakas. The ones from Hawaii. You know what they call us mainlanders? Kotonks. The way they tell it if you rap on our heads it's like hitting a coconut. Hollow heads, you know? Kotonk, kotonk, kotonk.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Poltergeist (1982)
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The Meaning of Love
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Robert Pirosh wrote his own picture and did a wonderful job of directing it, and 'Go for Broke!', his tribute to Japanese-American volunteers fighting in World War II, is deftly executed with a nice blend of pulse-quickening action and more thought-provoking interludes where white Lieutenant Grayson (Van Johnson), originally prejudiced against the people he is assigned to command, gradually learns to come to terms with the fact that bravery and patriotism are irrelevant to your race or the color of your skin.
That could all be a little too rhetorical for its own good, but Pirosh never over-stresses his point, and his picture is never holier-than-thou. "You see, Sir, I'm from Texas", Grayson says to his superior, but Pirosh lets it go at that and doesn't lash out against Southern bigotry. I really liked the gentle irony of Pirosh' contrasting the idyllic, outdated guidebooks to Italy and France that Grayson reads with the prosaic reality of war-torn countries.