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Stand By For Action

1942, Movie, NR, 109 mins

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This flag-waving, anti-Japanese Hollywood film was released almost a year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. By this time, all of the studios were making war movies and rushing them out to a waiting nation. Many of them had cookie-cutter plots, and STAND BY FOR ACTION is no exception to that trend, although its special effects (which earned an Oscar nomination) and the stellar cast place it a cut considerably above most of its contemporary competitors. Taylor (in a... read more leave a comment
Year: 1942
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Taylor: Lt. Gregg Masterman
Charles Laughton: Rear Adm. Stephen Thomas
Brian Donlevy: Lt. Cmdr. Martin J. Roberts
Walter Brennan: Chief Yeoman Henry Johnson
Marilyn Maxwell: Audrey Carr
Henry O'Neill: Cmdr. Stone

 

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A haughty Harvard boy (Robert Taylor) is taken down a notch when he sees action in the...
Free | TCM

Posted: 8/1/2008
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