Guadalcanal Diary
Marine Corps Capt. Marion Carl, a multi-ace (18.5 air victories), makes an appearance as a Marine Corps pilot. Capt. Carl wears his baseball cap with the bill pointed skyward and makes the comment, "Don't look now, fellas, but a truck of gas just came on the field." Capt. Carl was a survivor of the Battle of Midway and the air campaign for Guadalcanal in 1942. He was awarded 2 Navy Crosses for his actions at Midway and Guadalcanal. Sadly, on June 28, 1998, he was murdered in his Oregon home by a home intruder.,When Japanese snipers hid in the tops of trees, they tied themselves into their positions. They did not fall out of the trees when shot.,Cpl. Aloysius T. 'Taxi' Potts: [In dugout waiting out a heavy artillery barrage] I don't mind the one with my name on it. It's the one that says, 'To whom it may concern' that I don't like.
[after the barrage increases]
Cpl. Aloysius T. 'Taxi' Potts: They're throwing everything at us but the kitchen stove.
Gunnery Sgt. Hook Malone: That's the stove now!,The film's opening prologue in the preface of a book states: A new chapter in the history of America by a correspondent who landed on Guadalcanal with the first detachment of United States Marines.,Edited into All This and World War II (1976),Marine Hymn
(uncredited)
Music by Jacques Offenbach from "Geneviève de Brabant"
Played during the opening credits and occasionally in the score,An exciting and vintage story of a large invasion , this is an ultapatriotic war film that has its outrageous and interesting moments. It displays a typical crew of Marines battling the "Yellow Menace" over an important base on the famous Pacific atoll, Guadalcanal . Share the laughs a fighting man lives by.. the loves he dreams of..the things he fights for...in the screen's first great victory picture !

A moving , flag-waver and breathtaking warfare movie that must have been a real booster for filmgoers in America. This is one of the best American movies about the Pacific , conflict in World War Two , and in places , very stirring too . However, today it 's almost dated , including some violent images , particularly during the scene in which Anthony Quinn shoots in cold blood an enemy because he exacts a revenge and hates Japanese. Being well based on writer Richard Tregaskis' first-hand account . It suffers on television because of the small screen hurts the epic scale and adding some ordinary stock footage . Main and support cast are frankly notable, all of them are firmly characterized , such as : Lloyd Nolan, Preston Foster , Anthony Quinn, Richard Conte , Lionel Stander, William Bendix , Ralph Byrd, Minor Watson, Roy Roberts , Miles Mander, John Archer , and special mention for Richard Jaeckel , the little blond two-fisted guy whose screen credits spands over 30 years to The Dirty Dozen , as he was working as a delivery boy in the 20th Century Fox mail room when at almost 18 was spotted and signed for the character of Baby Marine .

It provides an atmospheric cinematography in black and white by cameraman Charles Clarke . As well as a thrilling and emotive musical score by composer David Buttolph. This ultrajingoist but immensely attractive motion picture was well directed by Lewis Seiler (Breakthrough, Battle Stations , You're in the Army now, South of Suez, Flight Angels , Hell's Kitchen, Heart of the North , Doll Face, King of the Underworld). Rating : 6.5/10 . Better than average . The flick will appeal to WWII aficionados.,