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EAN-13	9786300185197
Product Name	Wake Island [VHS]
Language	English
Category	Electronics / Photography: A/V Media: Movie / TV
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SKU	VHSUAES002AF-10Z
Price New	9.98 US Dollars    (curriencies)
Price Used	0.44 US Dollars    (curriencies)
Cast	Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix, Albert Dekker
Binding	VHS Tape
Format	Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Run Time	87 minutes
Long Description	Wake Island, a sandbar rising 21 feet out of the South Pacific, was among the first U.S. outposts to be hit by the Japanese, virtually simultaneously with Pearl Harbor. Wake Island the movie was among Hollywood's earliest responses to America's being attacked and drawn into WWII. The Marine Corps defenders of Wake became instant war heroes, akin to the martyrs of the Alamo. Nothing could be done to rescue or even to reinforce and resupply them, and they fought on through air attacks and naval bombardment for two weeks until, finally overrun, they were wiped out. That searing historical context had a lot to do with the movie's impact in 1942, and the sight of the dark forms of enemy planes coming over the horizon for the first time still carries a shock. Wake Island 's a decent film, and it doesn't dishonor its subject with sham heroics and grandstanding. But the New York Film Critics voted John Farrow best director of 1942, and that's a reach. The first half hour sets up the allegory of America as melting pot (there's even a corporal named Goebbels), establishes horseplay as the coin of democratic discourse (especially for gyrenes Robert Preston and the Oscar-nominated William Bendix), and fosters familiar friction between new commander Brian Donlevy and civilian construction supervisor Albert Dekker. Then shortly after a beaming Japanese peace envoy has stopped by for dinner, things get rough. The scenes of warfare are more than adequate, but they'd soon be outdone, sometimes in films much less worthy than Wake Island . --Richard T. Jameson
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