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    Guadalcanal Diary

    Poster of the movie Guadalcanal Diary
    1943     War drama    
    USA
    1h 33min

    The story follows one squad of Marines through the bloody assaults on the Solomon Islands during the opening stages of the war in the South Pacific. There's the tough sergeant (Lloyd Nolan), a cab driver from Brooklyn (William Bendix), a Mexican (Anthony Quinn) and a chaplain (Preston Foster). A battle-weary narrator reads from a diary, commenting on the typical grunt's everyday life, and death. Battles and dates of engagement are named, putting the explosive action into a solid historical context.

    Directed byLewis Seiler
    Written byRichard Tregaskis, Lamar Trotti, Jerome Cady
    Company20th Century Studios20th Century Studios20th Century Studios

    Starring

    Preston Foster
    Lloyd Nolan
    William Bendix
    Anthony Quinn
    Richard Jaeckel
    Lionel Stander
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