55 Days at Peking 1963

Leg Films of Epics com

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SANDS OF IWO JIMA

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041841
sands of iwo jima
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win
John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader

who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans

and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East.

One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker,

Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker's CO

at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft

and cowardly to be a Marine.

The squad grows more and more

resentful at Stryker's increasingly brutal training

regimen and his lack of sympathy for the

varied personal problems of the

recruits, but his determination to mold

them into fighting men helps save their

lives when the squad is landed at

Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker

risks his life to blow up

a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered

Marines trapped at a log wall.

The now battle-tested squad becomes more

closely-knit and Stryker's relationship with the

men warms as the squad eventually finds

itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war,

at Iwo Jima

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