Battle Of The Coral Sea - DVD

A guitar-picking good ol' boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened and ready to answer their country's Battle Cry. Scripted by Leon M. Uris from his own novel, directed by action master Raoul Walsh and starring a who's who of '50s movie stars, Battle Cry is an epic ode to World War II Marine heroism and homefront sacrifice. The saga follows recruit

Directed by Paul Wendkos (The Burglar and Gidget), Kerwin Mathews (The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad) and Ray Danton (The Longest Day) play conflicting soldiers fighting first over a woman (Julie Adams, Creature from the Black Lagoon) and then on Guadalcanal. The film is a realistic portrayal of the struggle in one of the most important earliest strategic victories in World War II, with a deep dramatic exploration of the struggles between co

Re-live the terrible WWII battle of Guadalcanal, as Dr. Robert Ballard conducts an undersea exploration of "Iron Bottom Sound" in the Southwestern Pacific. His expedition, assisted by the U.S. Navy, located 14 U.S., Japanese, and Australian destroyers and cruisers lost for some 50 years. Veterans of the battle and military historians help identify the ships during an emotional reunion.