Sands of Iwo Jima
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Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 film about a group of United States Marines as they go from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.
- Directed by Allan Dwan. Written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant.
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[edit] Sgt. Stryker
- Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
- You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast. And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he had never been born.
[edit] PFC Al Thomas
- You know, my natural dislike for you is turning into a great hatred, Bass.
[edit] Other
- Officer: [giving the pre-invasion briefing] Now, nobody knows exactly what they've got on this island, but they've had forty years to put it there.
[edit] Dialogue
- Sgt. Stryker: Grenade. Hit the deck.
- [the platoon runs, except for Conway, who is reading a love letter and has to be tackled to safety by Stryker when the grenade goes off]
- Sgt. Stryker: You idiot. When are you gonna wake up? You wanna see that dame again, keep your mind on your work.
- PFC Al Thomas: You may not know this, boy, but you just got your life saved.
- PFC Charlie Bass: Don't do it. Just this once, don't do it.
- Sgt. Stryker: Don't do what?
- PFC Charlie Bass: Don't get blind, staggerin' stinkin' falling down drunk.
- Sgt. Stryker: Charlie, nobody sets out to get blind, staggerin' stinkin' falling down drunk.
- PFC Charlie Bass: Yeah, some people do.
- PFC Al Thomas: That's war.
- PFC Charlie Bass: What's war?
- PFC Al Thomas: Trading real estate for men.
- '[During the night the squad is guarding a trenchline amid and hears faint voice can be heard calling "Corpsman."]
- PFC Benny Regazzi: [whispering] Stryker!
- Sgt. Stryker: [whispering] Get down! Stay down! You have your orders, don't move!
- PFC Peter Conway: [whispering] There's somebody wounded out there. Let's go get him!
- Sgt. Stryker: Stay down, it might be a Jap trick, they pulled it off plenty of times at Guadalcanal.
- PFC Peter Conway: That doesn't sound like a Jap to me!
- Sgt. Stryker: I don't care what it sounds like to you! You stick your head up, you'll tip our position.
- [the voice resumes, and now they recognize it as Bass]
- PFC Charlie Bass: Stryker!
- PFC Peter Conway: That's Bass. How many Japs know your name, Stryker?
[edit] Taglines
- Alone and outnumbered, they had one thing in their favor... the American dream.
- A great human story... makes a mighty motion picture.
[edit] Cast
- John Wayne - Sgt. John M. Stryker
- John Agar - PFC Peter Conway
- Forrest Tucker - PFC Al Thomas
- Wally Cassell - PFC Benny Regazzi
- James Brown - PFC Charlie Bass
- Richard Webb - PFC Dan Shipley
- Arthur Franz - Corporal Robert Dunne / Narrator
- James Holden - PFC Soames
- Richard Jaeckel - PFC Frank Flynn
- William Murphy - PFC Eddie Flynn
- Adele Mara - Allison Bromley
- Julie Bishop - Mary
[edit] External links
- Sands of Iwo Jima quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Sands of Iwo Jima at Rotten Tomatoes
