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    Halls of Montezuma

    Poster of the movie Halls of Montezuma
    1951     Action drama    
    USA
    1h 53min
    Original lang: English, Japanese

    Lieutenant Carl Anderson, a Marine platoon leader, loses all but seven of his men in the battle of Guadalcanal. Through flashbacks, we learn that Anderson, in peacetime, was a chemistry teacher. One of his men, Corporal Stuart Conroy, was his student. Anderson is determined to keep all his men alive when the platoon is sent on a harrowing and desperately important mission. In twenty-four hours the Japanese will launch a rocket defense that will cripple the local Allied military forces. Anderson's rough-and-tumble crew must locate and take out the rocket command or die trying. In one haunting and spectacular location after the other -- jungle foxholes, abandoned buildings, caves, and tropical island beachheads -- the men fight alongside of and learn from one another.

    Directed byLewis Milestone
    Written byMichael Blankfort
    Company20th Century Studios20th Century Studios20th Century Studios

    Starring

    Richard Widmark
    Jack Palance
    Robert Wagner
    Karl Malden
    Richard Boone
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