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Flying Leathernecks

1951, Movie, NR, 102 mins

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This overlong but action-filled WW II film offers John Wayne in a familiar role as Maj. Dan Kirby, the martinet commander of a fighter squadron on Guadalcanal in 1942, a man whose rigid discipline gets the job done but alienates the pilots flying under his orders. Capt. Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan), his easygoing, poetry-reciting second-in-command, thinks Kirby is a fine officer and leader of men but begins to criticize his uncompromising ways, believing that a freer hand shou... read more leave a comment
Year: 1951
Rated NR

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Cast
John Wayne: Maj. Dan Kirby
Robert Ryan: Capt. Carl Griffin
Don Taylor: Lt. "Cowboy" Blithe
William Harrigan: Lt. Cmdr. Joe Curan
Janis Carter: Joan Kirby
Jay C. Flippen: Master Sgt. Clancy

 

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