Sands of Iwo Jima
Original movie poster
Directed by	Allan Dwan
Produced by	Edmund Grainger
Written by	Harry Brown, James Edward Grant
Starring	John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker
Music by	Victor Young
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film which follows a group of Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan. It was produced by Republic Pictures. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 21, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. ... Harry Brown can refer to: Harry Brown, a Canadian Victoria Cross winner Harry Brown, host of As It Happens from 1968 to 1974 Harry Brown, a poet Harry Brown, a screenwrighter and novelist Harry Brown, a North Carolina politician See also: Henry Brown for a list of people who have... James Edward Grant (2 July 1905 – 19 February 1966), was an American film writer and director. ... John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. ... John G. Agar (January 31, 1921 - April 7, 2002) was a successful Hollywood actor who ascended to celebrity shortly after World War II. He is perhaps best remembered for as Shirley Temples first husband (1945-1950) and for starring in the Sands of Iwo Jima alongside John Wayne; however... Forrest Tucker (right) in Cosmic Monsters. ... Victor Young (August 8, 1900 - November 10, 1956) was an Jewish-American composer, violinist and conducter. ... See also: 1948 in film 1949 1950 in film 1940s in film 1950s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America Adams Rib Jolson Sings Again Pinky I Was a Male War Bride, The Snake Pit, Joan of Arc Academy Awards Best Picture: All the... The war film is a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ... Combatants  United States  Empire of Japan Commanders Holland Smith Tadamichi Kuribayashi â€  Strength 110,000 21,000 Casualties 8,226 dead 19,189 wounded,[1] 494 missing[1] Total: 27,909 20,703 dead,[1] 216 captured[1] Total: 20,919 Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign Iwo Jima – Okinawa – Ten-Go... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. ... John G. Agar (January 31, 1921 - April 7, 2002) was a successful Hollywood actor who ascended to celebrity shortly after World War II. He is perhaps best remembered for as Shirley Temples first husband (1945-1950) and for starring in the Sands of Iwo Jima alongside John Wayne; however... Adele Mara, also known as Adelaide Delgado is an American actress, active in the mid 20th-century, most famous for her roles in the films Angel in Exile and Sands of Iwo Jima. ... Forrest Tucker (right) in Cosmic Monsters. ... Harry Brown (April 30, 1917–November 2, 1986) was a novelist and screenwriter. ... James Edward Grant (2 July 1905 – 19 February 1966), was an American film writer and director. ... Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 21, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. ... Republic Pictures Corporation (aka Republic Entertainment) is an independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns and movie serials. ...

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (John Wayne), Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Recording and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ... The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ... The Academy Award for Best Story was the Academy Award that was the predecessor to the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay which was introduced in 1940. ...

Plot

Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through. He is especially despised by Private Peter Conway (John Agar), the arrogant, college-educated son of an officer Stryker served under and admired, and Private Al Thomas (Forrest Tucker), who blames him for his demotion. During a training exercise, a recruit drops a live hand grenade. Everybody drops to the ground except Conway, who is distracted reading a letter from his wife. Stryker knocks him down, saving his life, and then proceeds to bawl him out. For the alcoholic beverage sold in New Orleans, see hand grenade (drink). ...

When he leads his squad in the invasion of Tarawa, the men begin to appreciate his methods, except Conway, who considers him brutal and unfeeling when he apparently abandons a wounded comrade to the enemy. During the battle, Thomas goofs off when he goes to get ammunition for two comrades, stopping to savor a cup of coffee. As a result, he returns too late - the two Marines, now out of ammunition, are overrun; one is killed, the other badly wounded, by bayonets. When Stryker discovers the truth, he forces Thomas into a fistfight. Stryker is accused by an officer of striking a subordinate but Thomas unexpectedly gets him out of the jam by claiming that he was being taught judo. His conscience ravaging him, Thomas breaks down and abjectly apologizes for his dereliction. Combatants  United States  Japan Commanders Holland Smith Keiji Shibasaki  â€  Strength 35,000 troops 3,000 troops, 1,000 Japanese and 1,200 Korean laborers Casualties 1,001 killed 4,713 killed 17 Japanese and 129 Koreans captured Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Makin Raid – Tarawa – Makin – Kwajalein – Truk – Eniwetok The... Boxes of ammunition clog a warehouse in Baghdad Ammunition is a generic military term meaning (the assembly of) a projectile and its propellant. ... The US Marine Corps OKC-3S Bayonet A bayonet (from French baïonnette) is a knife- or dagger-shaped weapon designed to fit on or over the muzzle of a rifle barrel or similar weapon. ... This article is about the martial art and sport. ...

Stryker shows his soft side while on leave in Honolulu. He picks up a bargirl and goes to her apartment. He becomes suspicious when he hears somebody in the next room, but when he investigates, all he finds is a hungry baby boy she is supporting the best way she can. He gives the girl (the widow of a marine) all his money and leaves. For the city and county of Honolulu, see City & County of Honolulu. ... A bargirl is a woman, usually young, who works as a hostess in a bar catering to male clients. ...

In the next invasion, Stryker's squad is involved in the battle for Iwo Jima, in particular the iconic flag raising on Mount Suribachi. Afterwards, while the men are resting during a lull in the fighting, a sniper kills him. His men find a letter on him, addressed to his son, saying all the things he wanted to say, but never got around to. Combatants  United States  Empire of Japan Commanders Holland Smith Tadamichi Kuribayashi â€  Strength 110,000 21,000 Casualties 8,226 dead 19,189 wounded,[1] 494 missing[1] Total: 27,909 20,703 dead,[1] 216 captured[1] Total: 20,919 Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign Iwo Jima – Okinawa – Ten-Go... Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press. ... Iwo Jima (Japanese 硫黄島 Iōjima, meaning sulfur island) is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands (also known as the Ogasawara Islands), approximately 650 miles (1046 km) south of Tokyo (24. ...

Cast

• John Wayne as Sergeant John M. Stryker
• John Agar as Private First Class (Pfc) Peter Conway
• Forrest Tucker as Pfc Al Thomas
• Wally Cassell as Pfc Benny Regazzi
• James Brown as Pfc Charlie Bass
• Richard Webb as Pfc Dan Shipley
• Arthur Franz as Corporal Robert Dunne/Narrator
• James Holden as Pfc Soames
• Peter Coe as Pfc George Hellenpolis
• Richard Jaeckel as Pfc Frank Flynn
• William Murphy as Pfc Eddie Flynn
• George Tyne as Pfc Harris
• Hal Baylor as Pfc 'Sky' Choynski
• Adele Mara as Allison Bromley
• Julie Bishop as Mary

John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. ... For other uses, see Sergeant (disambiguation). ... John G. Agar (January 31, 1921 - April 7, 2002) was a successful Hollywood actor who ascended to celebrity shortly after World War II. He is perhaps best remembered for as Shirley Temples first husband (1945-1950) and for starring in the Sands of Iwo Jima alongside John Wayne; however... US Military In the U.S. Army, Private First Class is the third lowest enlisted rank, just above Private and below Corporal or Specialist. ... Forrest Tucker (right) in Cosmic Monsters. ... Wally Cassell (born March 3, 1915) was a film actor. ... Richard Webb (September 9, 1915 – June 19, 1993) was a film, television and radio actor. ... Franz in The Sniper (1952) Arthur Franz (born February 29, 1922 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey), passed away June 17, 2006 at the age of 84 from emphysema and heart disease. ... This article is about the military rank. ... James Holden (12 December 1920 - 19 January 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing Clay Baker in the TV series Adventures in Paradise. ... Richard Jaeckel Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June 14, 1997) was an American actor. ... William Murphy, also known as Bill Murphy, Bill Red Murphy, Billy Murphy or William Red Murphy was an American actor who appeared in many movies from 1944 until the 1970s. ... Adele Mara, also known as Adelaide Delgado is an American actress, active in the mid 20th-century, most famous for her roles in the films Angel in Exile and Sands of Iwo Jima. ... Hon Julie Bishop Julie Isabel Bishop (born 17 July 1956), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Curtin, Western Australia. ...

Actual Marines

Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, and John Bradley, the three survivors of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who raised the second flag on Suribachi during the actual battle, appear briefly in the film just prior to the re-enactment. Hayes was also the subject of a film biography, The Outsider, and Bradley the subject of a book by his son, Flags of Our Fathers. Rene Arthur Gagnon (March 7, 1925 – October 12, 1979) was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthals famous World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was a Akimel O’odham, or Pima Indian, and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. ... John Jack Doc Bradley (July 10, 1923 – January 11, 1994) was a US Navy corpsman during World War II, and one of the six men who took part in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ... USN redirects here. ... Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is the New York Times-bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman (Medic) who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthals lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima...

Also appearing as themselves are 1st Lt. Harold Schrier, who led the flag-raising patrol on Iwo Jima, Col. David M. Shoup, later Commandant of the Marine Corps and recipient of the Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Lt. Col. Henry P. "Jim" Crowe, commander of the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines at Tarawa, where he earned the Navy Cross. Colonel Harold George Schrier (October 17, 1916 - June 3, 1971) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, recipient of the Navy Cross, the nations second highest award for valor, and a combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War. ... General David Monroe Shoup (13 January 1983) was a World War II Medal of Honor recipient and the twenty-second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps (January 1, 1960–December 31, 1963). ... The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is the highest ranking officer of the United States Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reporting to the Secretary of the Navy but not to the Chief of Naval Operations. ... The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States. ... Combatants  United States  Japan Commanders Holland Smith Keiji Shibasaki  â€  Strength 35,000 troops 3,000 troops, 1,000 Japanese and 1,200 Korean laborers Casualties 1,001 killed 4,713 killed 17 Japanese and 129 Koreans captured Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Makin Raid – Tarawa – Makin – Kwajalein – Truk – Eniwetok The... The Navy Cross is the second highest medal that can be awarded by the Department of the Navy and the second highest award given for valor. ...

Cultural references

• A scene from this movie can be seen in the 2006 film Thank You for Smoking.

• Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers has a song entitled "The Sands of Iwo Jima" on its album The Dirty South. It is sung from the perspective of a young boy who loves John Wayne movies. He asked his great-uncle, a World War II veteran, if The Sands of Iwo Jima represented the war properly; the old man smiled, shook his head and responded "I never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima."

• In the television show King of the Hill, this is the favorite film of Cotton Hill, father of main character Hank Hill. Hank recalls that, during his childhood, his father would travel around Texas searching for showings of this film.

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Trivia

• The film has the first recorded use of the phrase "lock and load", twice as a metaphor for "get ready to fight" and once as a humorous invitation to drink alcohol (get loaded}.

This article is about the use of the phrase Lock and Load in ammunition and popular culture. ...

See also

• The United States Marine Corps on film

The United States Marine Corps on film began with The Star Spangled Banner (1918), the United States Marine Corps discovered the use of motion pictures. ...

External links

• Sands of Iwo Jima at the Internet Movie Database