Wake Island with Brian Donlevy: DVD Cover

    Wake Island Director: John Farrow Cast: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/25/2004
    • Original Release: 1942
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 6,228

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    Side #1 --
    1. Aloha (Main Titles) [5:02]
    2. The Honeymoon's Over [4:51]
    3. A Friendly Wager [5:41]
    4. No Brig Here [5:25]
    5. Japanese Envoy [4:44]
    6. Pearl Harbor Attacked [6:18]
    7. Air Raid on Wake [6:51]
    8. A Thorough Job [3:41]
    9. Back in Uniform [5:58]
    10. An Old Chinese Trick [5:37]
    11. Open Fire [5:21]
    12. Bombing Mission [5:07]
    13. Cut Down [2:38]
    14. Still Holding [4:04]
    15. Calm Before the Storm [3:55]
    16. Come and Get Us [5:47]
    17. Landing Parties [2:53]
    18. Not the End [3:38]

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    The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced participation in World War II. The first two reels takes place in the weeks prior to Pearl Harbor, as Wake Island military commander Brian Donlevy carries on a friendly rivalry with Seabee supervisor Albert Dekker. Once the US is in the shooting war, all previous differences are forgotten and the Wake Island personnel begin pulling together. Despite being heavily outnumbered during the subsequent Japanese attack on Wake, the Americans put up a valiant fight, at great cost to the Imperial Forces. In a scene calculated to evoke long, loud cheers from the audience, Donlevy, weary and battle-stained, relays to the American mainland the legendary (if offensive) challenge "Send us more Japs!" As in the like-vintage Bataan, the military defeat of the Americans is treated-and justifiably so--as a moral victory. Utilizing some of the top male talents in Paramount's contract pool-Donlevy, Dekker Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey, William Bendix--Wake Island remains an excellent example of propaganda-as-entertainment Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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