Flying leathernecks [DVD videorecording] / Howard Hughes presents ; RKO Pictures ; Turner Entertainment Co. ; an Edmund Grainger production ; screenplay by James Edward Grant ; directed by Nicholas Ray.

Title :

Flying leathernecks

Format:

DVD

Summary:

Fullscreen. It's World War II. Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is hard on his marines. His subordinate Captain Carl Griffin thinks the Major is overdoing it, but Kirby proves that there is a method to his madness after all.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

ISBN - ISSN:

1419853708

UPC/EAN:

053939791327

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Marines -- Drama.

Fighter pilots -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

DVD-video discs.

War films.

Action and adventure films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

United States. Marine Corps -- Drama.

Series:

John Wayne collection.

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Flying leathernecks [DVD videorecording] / Howard Hughes presents ; RKO Pictures ; Turner Entertainment Co. ; an Edmund Grainger production ; screenplay by James Edward Grant ; directed by Nicholas Ray.

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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star John Wayne and director Nicholas Ray. Filmed at the behest of RKO chieftain Howard R. Hughes, Leathernecks is a paean to the Marine Flying Corps of World War II. Wayne plays Major Dan Kirby, a squadron commander, whose no-nonsense attitude is sharply at odds with the easygoing approach of executive officer Captain Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan). Griffin eventually learns the value of discipline at all costs, while Kirby becomes more humanized as he gets to know his pilots. Jay C. Flippen steals the show as a supply sergeant who "borrows" from other companies to keep his men happy. Though not entirely cliché-free, Flying Leathernecks is one of the more solid war films of the 1950s, and one that has remained readily available in theaters, on TV and in video stores to the present day. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi