Marine Raiders (1944)
- Directed by
- Harold D. Schuster, Robert Wise
- Genre
- war film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows a U.S. Marine Raider battalion from training to battles in the Pacific during World War Two. It mixes scenes of combat with moments of rest and relationships between the soldiers.
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What happens
Marine Raiders is a 1944 RKO war film showing a fictional depiction of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Parachute Battalion on Guadalcanal, R&R in Australia, retraining in Camp Elliott (where much of the film was made) and a fictional attack in the Solomon Islands. Produced by Robert Fellows, and directed by Harold D. Schuster, it stars Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, and Ruth Hussey. The film depicts fictionalized accounts of the Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-1943), the Battle of Edson's Ridge (1942), and the Bougainville Campaign (1943-1945). The Western Desert Campaign (1940-1943) is mentioned as a concurrent event, but not actually depicted on-screen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Fighting Lady (1944)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.