"The thin red line"
Yep, that's my kind of movie. The kind that leave you
speechless for awhile after the lights come on.
Technically, is the marine uniform in this movie the same as "saving private Ryan
"? I hope not. One is in Europe as US Army and one is in South Pacific as US Marine.
However, the rifles should be the same, the famous M1. I am curious on the rifles used by
the Japanese are authentic.
This movie also has a predecessor: "Guadalcanal Diary" in b & w played by
all the tough guys of John Wayne's peers, the only one we know is Anthony Quinn, others
are familiar faces but not their names such as Preston Foster, LLoyd Nolan, William
Bendix, etc.
Actually, there was a pivotal naval battle fought in the water north of the island with
many of the sunken ships still sit at the bottom. Some of the rusted remains of the war
still littlered the beaches of this island west of New Guinea as part of the Solomon
Island. I know because I have the book "The lost ships of Guadalcanal" in my
WWII library.
No doubt the video of "the red line" by James Jones will line my war movie
classics shelf By the way, James Jones also wrote the "from here to eternity",
another WWII great in book and movie forms.
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