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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0506000040010
Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Format: Import, PAL
Label: Eureka
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Eureka
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Eureka
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: Eureka
Features:- THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: The Sullivans attempts to find the positives in one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Edward Ryan, John Campbell,James B. Cardwell, John Alvin and George Offerman Jr. play the Sullivan brothers, sons of an Iowa railroad worker (Thomas Mitchell) and his wife (Selena Royle). The film traces the boys from childhood, maintaining a relatively lighthearted tone until the Sullivans sign up en masse for the navy at the outbreak of the war. Refusing to be separated, the boys are all assigned to the cruiser Juneau--and all are killed when the vessel goes down at Guadalcanal. This appalling incident (which made something of a celebrity of the brothers' grieving father when he went on a nationwide patriotic lecture tour) resulted in the Navy's decision to never again allowed all the enlisted members of one family to serve on the same ship. Even from the vantage point of fifty years, the scene in which the family receives the wire from the war department is impossible to watch with a dry eye. -Lloyd Bacon's film is a fine tribute to the five Sullivan brothers who died simultaneously when the ship to which they were all assigned went down in the Pacific theater during WWII. The tragic event, which led to historic changes separating family members in the military, was the primary source for Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998). The film is structured as a series of vignettes about the Iowa-bred brothers first as young boys and then young men, designed to illustrate both how typical and how precious were the lives that were lost. What's most unusual about the film is the degree to which some of the period conventions about the depiction of
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