20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the spare, lean prose of Tregaskis' eyewitness account. The incidents in the "diary" are tied together by an off-screen narrator into a cohesive storyline. The principal characters in this wartime chronicle are marine sergeant
Lloyd Nolan, chaplain Preston S. Foster, Mexican enlistee
Anthony Quinn, and a Dodgers-lovin' Brooklynite, played by
William Bendix. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide