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Okinawa

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Original title

Okinawa

Year

1952

Running time

67 min.

Country

United States

Director

Leigh Jason

Screenwriter

Arthur A. Ross, Leonard Stern, Jameson Brewer. Plot: Arthur A. Ross

Cast

Cinematography

Henry Freulich (B&W)

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Genre

Action. War. Drama | II World War. Historical

Synopsis

Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U.S. Navy and the Japanese suicide planes---the Kamaikazes---and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U.S. war-department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels..and even a movie-within-a-movie where 1948's "Ladies of the Chorus" is shown to a crew of a ship in 1944. The factual story is interlaced with a fictional one dealing with the crew of an American destroyer which is assigned to an ocean picket line around Okinawa to protect the supply ships and the forces on the island. As such, it has the usual battle-weary skipper, the Latino wise-guy, the "Kid" and the "Old Veteran", and the brash, cigar-chewing "operator" on the ship who has cornered the entire supply of the ship's beer rations.

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Okinawa

1952

Leigh Jason