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Directed by John Farrow
USA 1942
They fought their way to glory! From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Five Came Back, Calcutta, The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Plunder of the Sun, comes this thrilling World War II classic starring Brian Donlevy (The Great McGinty), Robert Preston (Beau Geste), Macdonald Carey (Shadow of a Doubt), Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops) and William Bendix (Lifeboat). The first realistic American film made about World War II, this hard-hitting drama is based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault and battling their way to glory and into the pages of history. Wake Island received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Bendix) and Original Screenplay (W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler). *** In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and the Marines pull together day by day; but how long can they hold out. |
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Theatrical Release: August 11th, 1942
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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:28:19.294 | |
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1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 31,583,970,061 bytesFeature: 28,646,830,080 bytes Video Bitrate: 39.31 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio |
DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1554 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1554 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 31,583,970,061 bytesFeature: 28,646,830,080 bytes Video Bitrate: 39.31 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details:
• NEW Audio commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat
Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
Standard Blu-ray Case Chapters 10 |
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NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
captures were taken directly from the
Blu-ray
disc.
On their
Blu-ray,
Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (16-bit) in the original
English language. It has war-related effects from guns, explosions,
planes etc. The score is by
David Buttolph (This
Gun For Hire,
Western
Union,
Pete
Kelly's Blues,
Rope,
Three Secrets,
Kiss of Death,
Blood and Sand and many more) sounding dee with
consistent dialogue. Kino offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
John Farrow's Wake Island
is a RA-RA US propaganda film utilized to encourage enlisting in
the war effort in the Pacific. It's really well-made and effective. It
covers the time of the attack of Pearl Harbor and has simple,
ingratiating characters. Certainly one of the better war films - filled
with 'realism' in terms of guns, tanks, planes (not stock footage) and
the Kino Blu-ray
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