Sands of Iwo Jima Movie Download

Imdb rating:	7.1 (with 3100 votes)
Year:	1949
Genres:	Action, Drama, Romance, War

Sands of Iwo Jima Storyline

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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Actors

Wayne, John as Sgt. John M. Stryker, Agar, John as Pfc. Peter Conway, Tucker, Forrest as Pfc. Al Thomas, Cassell, Wally as Pfc. Benny Regazzi, Brown, James as Pfc. Charlie Bass, Webb, Richard as Pfc. 'Handsome' Dan Shipley, Franz, Arthur as Cpl. Robert Dunne/Narrator, Holden, James as Pfc. Soames, Coe, Peter as Pfc. George Hellenpolis, Jaeckel, Richard as Pfc. Frank Flynn, Murphy, William as Pfc. Eddie Flynn, Tyne, George as Pfc. Harris, Baylor, Hal as Pvt. 'Sky' Choynski, McGuire, John as Capt. Joyce, Milner, Martin as Pvt. Mike McHugh

Sands of Iwo Jima trivia

In one scene, combat veteran Sgt. Stryker ('John Wayne (I)' (qv)) instructs bumbling recruit Pvt. Choynski ('Hal Baylor' (qv)) on the correct way to march and hold a rifle. In real life Baylor was an ex-Marine who fought in the battles of Saipan and Tinian in WW II; Wayne had never served in the military.
The three men who were part of the flag raising (made famous by the photograph Joe Rosenthal had taken) and survived the battle for Iwo Jima, appear in the movie. 'Rene A. Gagnon' (qv), 'Ira H. Hayes' (qv) and 'John H. Bradley' (qv) are seen with with 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) as he instructs them to hoist the flag. (Wayne gives the folded flag to Gagnon). The flag used to recreate the incident is the actual flag that was raised on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. It was loaned to the movie by the US Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia.
Following the success of the movie, 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) was invited to place his footprints in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater. As part of the event, actual black sand from Iwo Jima was flown to Hollywood and mixed into the cement in which The Duke left his footprints and "fist print".
'Kirk Douglas (I)' (qv) was originally cast as Sergeant Stryker.
'John Wayne (I)' (qv) almost turned the film down at first, since at 42 he was rather old for the part and because he felt the American public had had enough of war films.

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