FIGHTING SEABEES, THE

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• Release Year: 1944
• Genre: Action; Drama; Romance; War
• Plot: All-American hero John Wayne takes a crew of construction workers and turns them into one of WWII's toughest fighting forces in this action-packed war classic. After having convinced the Army brass to let his civilians bear arms, Wedge Donovan (Wayne) whips his new troops into combat shape. but when he leads his unit in an all-out assault against the Japanese, Donovan is brought up on court-martial charges and must fight for his life on a new battlefield. THE FIGHTING SEABEES offers an entertaining combination of strog supporting performances by Daniel O'Keefe and ravishing, about-to-be superstar Susan Hayward; brawling, big budget action sequences; and Oscar-nominated score-- all of which led Leonard Maltin to give '3 stars' to this spirited saga turned box office bonaza.
• Cast: John Wayne; Susan Hayward; Dennis O'Keefe; William Frawley; Leonid Kinskey; J.M. Kerrigan; Grant Withers; Paul Fix; Ben Welden; William Forrest; Addison Richards; Jay Norris; Duncan Renaldo; Abdullah Abbas; Lee Adams; Joel Allen; Roy Barcroft; Roy Brent; Joe Brooks; Charles D. Brown; George Bruggeman; Wheaton Chambers; Roy Darmour; Kenne Duncan; Jean Fenwick; Terry Frost; Gene Gary; Bud Geary; Ernest Golm; Kit Guard; Eddie Hall; William Hall; Alex Havier; Herbert Heyes; Reed Howes; Arthur Stuart Hull; John James; Robert Katcher; Nora Lane; James B. Leong; Jung Lim; Beverly Lloyd; Tom London; Clarence Lung; George Magrill; Adele Mara; Frank Marlowe; LeRoy Mason; Harold Miller; Charles Mitchell; Bert Moorhouse; Al Murphy; Forbes Murray; Jack O'Shea; Paul Parry; Hugh Prosser; Joey Ray; Cyril Ring; Jeffrey Sayre; George Sherwood; Tom Steele; Larry Stewart; Clarence Straight; Charles Sullivan; Ben Taggart; Hal Taliaferro; Chief Thundercloud; Charles Trowbridge; Billy Wayne; Crane Whitley; Robert J. Wilke; Buddy Wilkerson; Edward Ludwig; Borden Chase; Æneas MacKenzie; Ethel Hill; Dale Van Every
• Director: Edward Ludwig
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Republic Pictures
• Media Format: movie