Gung Ho! (1943 film)

Gung Ho full title Gung Ho The Story of Carlsons Makin Island Raiders is a 1943 war film starring Randolph Scott. The story is based on the reallife World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlsons 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.

Amongst the volunteers for the unit are a hillbilly Rod Cameron who responds to the Marine Gunners Walter Sande question whether he can kill someone with the fact that he already has specifically a romantic rival. Alan Curtis is an ordained minister keeping his vocation a secret. Robert Mitchum is Pig Iron a boxer from a background of poverty and hard work. Harold Landon is a young and small street kid who is initially rejected by Naish but wins him over as both worked as dishwashers on ships bound to the United States from Piraeus. Noah Beery Jr and David Bruce are rivals for United States Navy Nurse Corps Lt. Grace McDonald. Volunteers with brief screen time include a Filipino wishing to avenge his sister who was raped and killed in Manila who teaches the Raiders knife fighting, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who sees the war as a continuation of the fight against Fascism, and a Marine who honestly admits I just dont like Japs.The film moves rapidly in a documentary style with stock footage of training narrated by Chet Huntley. The survivors of the training are sent to Hawaii for further jungle warfare training where they witness the damage of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In Hawaii they hear a radio bulletin of the announcement of the Battle of Guadalcanal. The Marines are ordered to board two submarines, the USSNautilus and the USSArgonaut destined for a commando raid on a Japanese held island. ........

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