whitehall
Diamond Member
The last B&W epic war movie starring Duke Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Pat Neal . I watched it again today and tried to pick out the actual events the movie was based on. My guess is that the island "Gavabuto" might have been Guadalcanal, the "old swayback cruiser might have been the Indianapolis( Duke's character Rock Torrey was relieved of duty for not zig zagging). Rock's son Jer might have been JFK (run over in a PT boat by a Japanese destroyer). Adm Broderick' relationship with the press might have been based on MacArthur. Good movie and hardly noticed it was in B&W.