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The Guts and Glory of a Navy! This is a film that desirous "Saving Private Ryan." It's a loyal story of 5 brothers who fought and died together when their ship, a American cruiser Juneau, was sunk in a South Pacific during World War II. The Fighting Sullivans is something some-more than a estimable reverence to a span of tiny city relatives and a 5 sons they mislaid when a Juneau blew adult in a conflict off Guadalcanal on Nov 13, 1942. It is a heartwarming cut of Americana that will fill in a credentials of any series of Americans on a fighting front. The audience's recognition of a news in store for a Sullivan family adds extremely to a film's effect. The Fighting Sullivans generates tension particularly on it's possess terms and but behest for tears. This Commemorative Edition outlines a 63rd anniversary of a falling of a Juneau. DVD features: 2005 Interview with Frank Holmgren (last vital survivor of a sinking)| Video Inside a 5 Sullivan Brothers Veterans Museum| A summary from Bob Neymeyer of a Grout Museum| Family Photos| Last Muster List| Memorials from family members| Survivor List| Juneau Action comment minute by Lieutenant Roger W O'Neil – Mc-V (G) U S Naval Reserve| Personal Letters| Letter from President Franklin D Roosevelt| New Digital Transfer| Original Theatrical Trailer.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #16751 in DVD
- Brand: Video Communications Inc.
- Released on: 2005-11-22
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .34 pounds
- Running time: 112 minutes
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91 of 93 people found a following examination helpful.
By Lawrance M. Bernabo
"The Fighting Sullivans" is a loyal story of 5 brothers who died together when their Navy ship, a Juneau, was sunk in a South Pacific during World War II. But usually a final act of this 1944 film, destined by Lloyd Bacon, shows a Sullivans during war. Most of this film is pristine Americana, following a lives of a boys from their childhood in Waterloo, Iowa. Thomas Mitchell and a miraculous Selena Royle are a amatory parents, while a 5 boys are played by different actors: Edward Ryan (Al), John Campbell (Frank), James Cardwell (George), John Alvin (Matt), and George Offerman (Joe). Trudy Marshall plays their usually sister, Genevieve. Top billing indeed goes to Anne Baxter as a immature lady who marries into a family and will be left a widow with a baby in arms. Ward Bond plays a Navy major who befriends a family when a Sullivans insist that they will usually join adult if they can offer together. Eventually a Navy relents and a boys get their wish.
Audiences knew a comfortless predestine of a Sullivans, nonetheless a film was creatively expelled as "The Sullivans" and flattering many inebriated during a box office. Retitled "The Fighting Sullivans" and re-released, it became a pound hit. The use of different actors done a film all a some-more effective, generally given it refrained from a arrange of cliches we would expect. If a stage where a relatives learn all 5 boys have died does not get you, a subsequent stage will: Mr. Sullivan goes off to his pursuit on a tyrannise and as a sight passes a H2O building where his boys waved to him as kids, he salutes them. Actually, this film works so good that a final shot, of a Sullivans in uniform striding opposite a clouds of a torture does not seem one mote hokey. There is a documentary accessible on a Sullivans, that tells how one of a boys survived a falling before failing in a waters off of Guadacanal. we would not have suspicion anything could have done this story some-more tragic, yet that bit of information positively done it worse for me.
72 of 74 people found a following examination helpful.
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My mom brought me to see this film during a Crest film entertainment in Highbridge. It was shortly after a Sullivan brothers had so heroically died for their dear country. There were many other mothers or fathers who wanted their children to learn about because we were during fight during that time, and to have honour for a Sullivans and all a other group and women in their use of their nation during World War II.
I was usually 5 years of age during that time, yet we remember all about a movie. Ofcourse, we saw it in a cinema a integrate of some-more times within a subsequent few years as good as staying adult until a diminutive tiny hours of a morning to see it on a late show. Each and any time, a film evoked a same greeting from me, tears and trembling.
I felt as yet any member of a Sullivan family was a crony of mine. Perhaps we competence sound aged fashioned or outdated, yet we appreciated The Fighting Sullivans some-more than we could any of a films of a benefaction day. This film was realistic, it dealt with a skinny line that separates life from death. The benefaction day films focus, for a many partial on fantasy, violence, and sex, that have many disastrous effects on a people who so select to take them seriously. Whereas, The Fighting Sullivans encompased clever family values, a family was not perfect, yet with their clever adore and honour for any other, they were means to overcome any hurdles that life competence have brought them. Good family values is a basement of life.
Oh, yes, this is one of a biggest tragedies of all times, yet this film has had certain effects on me as good as many others. It has served as an impulse and an appreciation of a good American heritage, interjection to some of a many dauntless servicemen such as a Sullivans who helped defend a beliefs of democracy for us.
My aspiration is to squeeze this film and watch it periodically, and share it with any family member(s) of friends who would caring to watch it with me.
21 of 21 people found a following examination helpful.
By Michael George (mgkski@juno.com)
In 1955 my mom done me lay and watch this film during a developed immature age of 10. we will never forget a emotions that overcame me even during this youg age. For years we had looked, and looked for this movie, and alas a few years behind it seemed on late nite tv. we watched, we recalled, and we cried my eyes out. Mind we we am a seasoned Viet Nam veteran...and this film is so picturesque as to what life was and should be, that it will impact anyone who views it in a auspicious light. we now insist that my dual adult children perspective this movie, and will squeeze it for any of them as a sign as to family values, and a scapegoat that past American's have done for a freedoms. This is a film that should be noticed by any American. This is a film that should be enclosed as compulsory observation for any newcomer entering and enjoying a freedoms of a USA. This film is reality, family values, loyalty, tradition, and patriosim all intertwined into a classical film that has and will continue over a years.
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