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FLYING LEATHERNECKS TRAILER 1951 JOHN WAYNE

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Uploaded by on May 22, 2009

Re-release trailer for the 1951 WWII classic, FLYING LEATHERNECKS, starring John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen and Don Taylor. With Howard Hughes' bankrolling this pet project, a serviceable screenplay by Veteran scripter Kenneth Gamet, Oscar nominee William E. Snyder behind the Technicolor camera, phenom director Nicholas Ray in his most creative period, and two stars of the first magnitude in the leads, FLYING LEATHERNECKS, should have been one of the screen great war films. Instead, it is an episodic, less than satisfying effort, due in no small part to the behind the camera tensions between Wayne and Flippen (both staunch conservatives) and Ryan and Ray (both outspoken liberals). Add Hughes' ineveitable interference, and it's a wonder FLYING LEATHERNECKS and its story of the toll of wartime command, ever got off the ground.




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  • @monsterzeroJr John Wayne contributed much more to the war effort by making patriotic movies that rallied the troops than he could have by going off to the front. You troll these John Wayne clips and bleet sheep-like what you have been spoon feed by anti-American liberal socialists who aim to destroy whats great about America.

  • @monsterzeroJr What WWII vets?? I have worked at a Veterans Hospital for almost 30 years now and have yet to hear a single vet (WWII or otherwise) complain about John Wayne. In fact, they love him and his movies has always been their favorite. I am a combate veteran myself and was greatly inspired by Wayne.

  • A lot of WWII vets see John Wayne as basically a draft dodger who was more interested in making a fortune in Hollywood than serving in the trenches, even if several famous starts did enlist. After the war the veterans were bitter about seeing him play the roles of a war hero.

  • When's the blu-ray version coming out?

  • 1:17 Nowdays they give you ticket for having all those people in your car without a seatbelt. Probably put you in jail too. Especially for not having a baby seat for the toddler.

  • I'm always amazed of the footage at 0:31 . Total destruction.

  • He more than said it in his actions. LOL.

  • technicolor camera

    coool

    i hate hd camera in new movies

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