The Fighting Sullivans
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- The Sullivans was also an Australian-made drama television series which ran from 1976 until 1983.
| The Fighing Sullivans aka The Sullivans |
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 DVD cover of The Fighting Sullivans Commemorative Edition |
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Produced by | Sam Jaffe Robert Kane |
| Written by | Edward Doherty Mary C. McCall Jr. Jules Schermer |
| Starring | Anne Baxter Thomas Mitchell Selena Royle Edward Ryan Trudy Marshall John Campbell James Cardwell John Alvin George Offerman Jr. |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
| Editing by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1944) (USA) (theatrical) (original distributor) Realart Pictures Inc. (1951) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) Crystal Pictures Inc. (1956) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) |
| Release date(s) | 3 February 1944 |
| Running time | 112 min |
| Language | English |
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The Fighing Sullivans is a 1944 Academy Award-nominated film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer, set in World War II.
The story follows the lives of the five Irish-American Sullivan brothers, who grew up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and served together in the United States Navy during World War II. Their eventual deaths in the Pacific theater aboard the light cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52) (sunk on 13 November 1942 during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal) are also chronicled in this film, which is based on the brother's true life story.
The film was originally released under the name The Sullivans; in 1945 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story.
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