World War II Documentary Double Feature: December 7th (1943) / Attack! The Battle of New Britain (1944)
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 18, 2019
- Originally Released: 1943
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ralph Byrd, Walter Huston & Lloyd Nolan | |
Directed by | John Ford & Gregg Toland |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
ATTACK! THE BATTLE OF NEW BRITAIN (1944): Frank Capra produced this feature-length documentary about the Allies' campaign to retake the island of New Britain from the Japanese. The down-to-earth voice of narrator Lloyd Nolan spends much of it explaining that the typical American soldier could be your brother, son, or husband. "Not ghosts from Pearl Harbor but American boys...Tom, Dick and Johnny. The boys who used to play baseball in vacant lots on Saturday afternoons, the youngsters that drove jalopies and listen to popular songs." Perhaps to demonstrate this, a long sequence of "Tom, Dick, and Johnny" skinny-dipping follows, with full-frontal nudity (!) There's plenty of brutal combat footage on hand as well, which elicits some decidedly un-politically correct commentary from Lloyd. "Dead Japs aren't always dead...better be sure" he says as a dogface inspects the corpse of a Japanese soldier. New Guinea natives assisting the Americans are also referred to as "fuzzy wuzzies." This commentary was written by Robert Presnell Sr., who had previously contributed the original story on which Capra's Meet John Doe (1941) was based. In charge of shooting this film under Capra was Jesse L. Lasky Jr., who later worked on the screenplays of Samson and Delilah (1949) and The Ten Commandments (1956).
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