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Your Learning Zone - The Fighting Sullivans (1944-USA)
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Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Ward Bond, Selena Royle, Thomas Mitchell, Anne Baxter
Directed By: Lloyd Bacon
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0663340197436
Format: Black & White
Label: Unknown
Manufacturer: Unknown
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Unknown
Release Date: 2002-11-01
Running Time: 113
Studio: Unknown
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-02-03
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Summary: good background
Comment: I saw this movie when I was a kid of course and now that I teach US History was hoping that it might work in place of the ever popular Saving Private Ryan. The movie is all about the background of the boys, how they grew up, the relationship they had as brothers, their fighting spirit and how they tried to make sure they stayed together in the military (in this case the Navy) during the war. I have to be honest, since I was looking at this film for use in my class I was hoping for more story of them on the ship but that part takes all of about 10 minutes. But as far as good old movies go - this is a delight.
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Summary: Great Movie
Comment: Saw this movie many many years ago, all i can say is, if you have never seen it, you really got watch it at lease once..
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Summary: War propaganda ages very fast
Comment: One little war propaganda film that has a certain charm. The charm comes from the five brothers that can never do anything separately. By insisting on being the five of them on the same ship they were all killed at the same time. That is no heroism in itself. That is just slightly sad and moving. Never put all your eggs in the same basket. If that basket gets run over you lose all your eggs. Yet the film has a charm beyond that and the charm comes from the number five, for one, and the reversal of age order for two. Five is a strange number. The Sullivans are a good Catholic Irish family. So six should be a better number and actually it is reached with the daughter and that brings the family to eight, Christ in his glory. Note when the five boys are dead, if we take into account the wife of the youngest son and their son that makes five again. Five is a deeply pagan number associated with life, the enjoyment of life and here it is inverted by the tragic death of the five sons leaving five people behind them. That is also surprising because of the satanic dimension of this number in a catholic dimension, and this inversion is typically American: the revisiting and de-diabolizing of this number, especially since they become heroes and their name is given to a war ship. Note the last vision of them is a dream when the ship is christened: four sons at first in two groups of two and the fifth one, the only married one, the youngest one coming running after. And then this number five becomes the basic symbol of the western civilization, the five fingers of a hand, the five senses and so many other things that come in five, especially the five cent nickel. Apart from that the film is nothing but propaganda, even when showing the suffering of the survivors, parents, sister and wife: very soft suffering indeed.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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Summary: The Fighting Sullivans
Comment: This is an excellent movie about families sticking together through out their entire life. I remember watching this movie as a child and I loved it back then as I do today. My children also loved this movie and enyoyed watching it.
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Summary: the fighting sullivans
Comment: I grew up with parents from the mid-west and then moved to the west. My whole life I was taught to support our country, our flag and show respect to our soldiers. I saw this movie for the first time on a very late night while I was baby sitting as a young teenager. I fell in love with the family and the partriotism. This movie was made during the war and of course as an adult that is a history buff, I can see that this movie was used to sell war bonds. Whatever the reason, it is always inspiring to see families that came before my time that fought for my freedoms. Thank you for making this movie available. MKM
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With ANNE BAXTER, THOMAS MITCHELL, SELENA ROYLE, WARD BOND, BOBBY DRISCOLL. Directed by LLOYD BACON. This heart-wrenching drama was made at the height of World War II, when American mothers and fathers were sending their sons off to battle. In too many cases, these young men never were to return. It opens with a simple declaration: "This is a true story." What follows is the account of five young men named Sullivan. They enjoy a typical all-American small town childhood as they share youthful adventures and mischief. The Sullivans go fishing and boating. They worship in church. They boyishly slide down the banister of their house and squabble among themselves and with others. Their hardworking father tries to set for them a good example. Their mother cooks their meals, cleans their clothes and mediates their differences. The years pass too quickly and the Sullivans become young men. They date and go to dances. One of them falls in love and marries. Then terrible! news comes, on December 7, 1941. The Japanese have launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. America is at war. "Its always been the five of us," one of the Sullivans proclaims. So they join the navy to do their patriotic duty. This is a tremendously moving account of boys grown into men and of honor and obligation, courage and sacrifice. The film is extremely well-acted, especially by Thomas Mitchell as the Sullivans father and Anne Baxter as the bride of the youngest Sullivan. Highly recommended. 113 minutes.
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