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5.4/10   61 votes
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Director:
Raoul Walsh
Writers:
John Twist (writer)
Raoul Walsh (story)
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Release Date:
10 November 1961 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | War more
Tagline:
UP TO THEIR NECKS IN FIGHTIN' AND LOVIN'! more
Plot Keywords:
User Comments:
Shore Leave For Gyrenes more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Tom Tryon ... Pfc. Skip Roth

David Hedison ... Pfc. Dave Chatfield

Tom Reese ... Pfc. Desmond 'Let's Go' McCaffrey
Linda Hutchings ... Grace Blake
William Tyler ... Pvt. Russ Waller
Barbara Stuart ... Ina Baxter
David Brandon ... Pvt. Newt Levels
Steve Baylor ... Pvt. Chase
Peter Miller ... Gunnery Sgt. Howard Hawkins
Rachel Romen ... Mrs. Ellen Hawkins (as Adoree Evans)
Hideo Inamura ... Pvt. Pete Kono
Vince Williams ... Hank Dyer (war correspondent)
Fumiyo Fujimoto ... Song Do (Chatfield's girl)
Heihachiro Okawa ... Yoshida (hotel manager)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
103 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
West Germany:18 (nf)
Filming Locations:
Kyoto, Japan

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
During the filming of the movie, 2000 Marines acting as extras were suddenly pulled during the Laos crisis. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: While in Tokyo, one of the marines and his wife visit the Temple of The Golden Pavillion, which is actually in Kyoto. more

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Shore Leave For Gyrenes, 13 June 2006
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Marines Let's Go is a film about a group of leathernecks on leave in occupied Japan just before the outbreak of the Korean War. It's the usual hijinks you find in service comedies. Tom Tryon and David Hedison went on to have some substantial careers.

Tom Reese is the leader of the group, I imagine because Raoul Walsh couldn't get Lee Marvin for the part. Reese is the sort that seems to be only happy in combat. The kind us poor civilians should give a wide berth to.

The film should have ended right when the Marines are put on alert and the leaves canceled. It was an average enough comedy, but it got kind of silly when it turned abruptly serious during the beginning of the Korean War. Ruined the film, the combat situations were hardly convincing.

No wonder Raoul Walsh couldn't get any name players for this one.

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