Sands of Iwo Jima
Staring Cast: John Wayne (John M. Stryker), John Agar (pfc Peter Conway), Adele Mara (Allison Bromley)Supporting Cast: Forest Tucker (pfc. Al Thomas), Wally Cassell (pfc. Benny Regazzi), Arthur Franz (cpl. Robert Dunne)
Directed by: Allen Dwan
Written by: Harry Brown, James Edward Grant
What's it rated?: Not Rated (I give it PG for violence)
Synopsis: a squad of Marines under the command of the tough, hard, and sometimes cruel Sgt. John M. Stryker, learn the skills they need to take part in one of the bloodiest battles in the pacific theater during WWII, The battle of Iwo Jima.
My Take: Although a cool movie, it is very old and thus, quite cheesy in quite a few places, for example, Pfc. Conway meets Allison Bromley at a dance and, of course, they fall in love. Like... two visits later, they get married... wha? but aside from the typical old-movie-romance scenes, this makes for an enjoyable film all round, not really worth watching repeatedly, but every once in a while... sure, why not.
The story is kinda' week, and it's hard to remember who's who throughout the entire movie. Pretty well the only people easy to remember are the stars and Benny Regazzi.
Story: 5 out of 10
Action: 7 out of 10
Overall: 6 out of 10
Well that concludes another MOVIE REVIEW MONDAY, be sure to tune in next time for another review, and look for even more to come in future.
-Graydon L
2 comments:
Good review, Graydon.
I've got a couple of review requests for you:
Father Goose starring Cary Grant
and
The Man who Knew too Much starring Jimmy Stewart and directed by Alfred Hichcock.
If you haven't seen these movies yet, you need to! They are some of my favorites, and I would enjoy getting your take on them.
Sure thing Sam, but I'm afraid I won't be able to review those until next week (at least) because we borowed a bunch of movies from the library and we want to watch them all before we have to take them back this week.
Anyway, thanks for the recomendation, I'll look into those films!
-Graydon :-)
P.S. I could do "the man who knew to much" right away because we do have it, but I'll have to weasel it into our tight movie-watching schedual first :-)
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