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Wake Island
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix. The film tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Plot
A map is shown with a voiceover giving a brief history of the United States military on Wake Island to November 1941. U.S. Marine Corps Major Geoffrey Caton departs Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii aboard the Pan American Clipper to take over command on Wake Island. A military contractor, Mr. McClosky, is also going there. The two clash during the flight.
Awards
Cast
- Alan Hale, Jr.
- Albert Dekker
- Barbara Britton
- Bill Goodwin
- Brian Donlevy
- Charles Trowbridge
- Chuck Connors
- Damian O'Flynn
- Dane Clark
- Edward Earle
- Frank Albertson
- Frank Faylen
- Fred Graham
- George Magrill
- Hillary Brooke
- Hugh Beaumont
- Jack Mulhall
- James Brown
- James Millican
- Lester Dorr
- Macdonald Carey
- Mary Field
- Mike Ragan
- Mikhail Rasumny
- Philip Van Zandt
- Richard Loo
- Robert Carson
- Robert Preston
- Rod Cameron
- Walter Abel
- Willard Robertson
- William Bendix
- William Forrest