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2 November 1958 (USA) more
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The bloodiest battle in marine history!
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A marine sergeant witnesses a captain kill one of their men at Guadalcanal to cover his own incompetence... more | add synopsis
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Good acting enhances B-movie war escapade more (2 total)

Cast

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Kerwin Mathews ... Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Thomas A. 'Tom' Sloan
Julie Adams ... Ruth Nelson Campbell
Ray Danton ... Lieutenant (later Captain) Joel Brady

Karen Sharpe ... Paula Nelson
Onslow Stevens ... General Nathan Keller
Russell Thorson ... Casey Nelson
Eddie Ryder ... Lieutenant Lou Gideon
John Baer ... Johnny Campbell
Michael Garth ... Major Westerly (as Mike Garth)
Larry Thor ... Colonel Kempler
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77 min
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Good acting enhances B-movie war escapade, 22 May 2003
Author: Sleepy-17 from Colorado

A good story, a little tepid, but with a nice twist at the end. Kerwin Matthews (the best Sinbad), Ray Danton (Legs Diamond), and Julie Adams (Creature from the Black Lagoon) don't exactly form a triangle. Matthews gets to display the anger missing from his fantasy roles, Danton makes a complex bad guy, and Adams is gorgeous and sincere, a 50's version of Jennifer Conelly. Screenplay has some good lines (but not enough) by Richard Alan Simmons who wrote Incredible Shrinking Man (but not its story). If you like the actors, worth checking out.

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