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...Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic) is a war picture that bristles and booms with enough clips from official combat films to give its audience a realistic touch of battle fatigue. The rest of it is just plain fatiguing; the plot has no more freshness or emotional tug than a military manual, and it is peopled by a movie-hardened cast of characters who have served too many hitches on Hollywood's back-lot battlefields...
...Iwo Jima's greatest asset is leathery, lithe John Wayne. His relaxed acting of a sleepy-eyed, two-fisted he-man (6 ft. 4 in.) has made him a pillar of credibility in many an unlikely blood & thunder epic. Broken in like a good saddle, in 150 pictures over 20 years, his coarse-grained appeal has finally won 42-year-old Actor Wayne a place (according to Showmen's Trade Review) second only to Bob Hope among the U.S. box office's favorite male stars...
...office virtue: its release is timed 1) to cash in on U.S. naval aviation's well-publicized wrangling with the Air Force and 2) to get an early start in a new Hollywood cycle of World War II films. (Coming up in the near future: Battleground, Sands of Iwo Jima, Twelve O'Clock High, Three Came Home...
...cover of the pamphlet was the prize-winning photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, along with the words...
...seven other Pacific bases which the Navy had asked to retain at war's end, only Guam-Saipan was still active, and Guam's personnel had been halved. Adak, Leyte, Manus and Iwo had been abandoned or left in housekeeping status: Kodiak had become a minor base. Pacific fleet strength had also been sharply cut back. Three carriers and six cruisers were headed for mothballs, leaving only a handful of combat ships to guard the supply lines to the occupation forces in Japan...