Word: jima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Harry S. Truman, christened the battleship Missouri. The "Big Mo," as the ship came to be called, displaced 45,000 tons, had a top speed over 30 knots, a deadly main battery of nine 16-inch rifles. She first fired her guns in anger at Iwo Jima and Okinawa ; before the war ended, she had been hit by a Japanese suicide plane (but suffered no casualties and slight damage). On her broad deck, in 1945, the Japanese signed their surrender. By 1948 the Missouri was the only U.S. battleship in commission...
...almost four years after World War II's end, Hollywood would as soon have made war movies as sown minefields in front of U.S. box offices. Then MGM's Battleground broke the jinx and, with Sands of I wo Jima and Twelve 0'Clock High, landed among the first ten moneymakers of 1950. Now the studios are releasing and shooting so many war films that faithful moviegoers may soon feel eligible for battle stars...
With his new Beverly Hills real-estate business a going concern, former Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey looked around for another investment, teamed up with Cinemactor John (Sands of Iwo Jima) Wayne and Crooning Cowboy Gene Autry for some wildcat oil drilling in New Mexico's San Juan Basin...
Like other recent war films (Battleground, Sands of Iwo Jima), Halls of Montezuma concentrates on a single platoon, this time headed by an ex-schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove...
...Variety's list of 1950's biggest box-office grossers. The public's favorites, in order of popularity: Samson and Delilah, Battleground, King Solomon's Mines, Cheaper by the Dozen, Annie Get Your Gun, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, Sands of I wo Jima, Broken Arrow, Twelve O'Clock High...