Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

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Synopsis
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

Cast

Eddie Acuff	Tex McIlvoy
John Archer	Lt. Thurmond
Warren Ashe	Col. Morton
William Bendix	Taxi Potts
Ralph Byrd	Ned Rowman
Harry Carter	Dispatch Officer
Walter Fenner	Col. Roper
Preston S. Foster	Father Donnelly
Reed Hadley	Correspondent
George Holmes	Marine
Russell Hoyt	Marine
Selmar Jackson	Col. Thompson
Richard Jaeckel	Pvt. Johnny Anderson, ("Chicken")
Jack Luden	Major
Miles Mander	Weatherby
Lloyd Nolan	Sgt. Hook Malone
Roy Roberts	Capt. Cross
Robert Rose	Sammy Kline
Lionel Stander	Butch
Minor Watson	Col. Grayson
Richard Conte	Capt. Davis
Anthony Quinn	Jesus "Soose" Alvarez
Martin Black	Marine
Louis Hart	Lieutenant
Charles Lang	Marine
Larry Thompson	Chaplain
Robert Rose	Sammy Kline

Production Crew

James Basevi	Art Director
Leland Fuller	Art Director
Islin Auster	Associate Producer
Richard Tregaskis	Book Author
Charles G. Clarke	Cinematographer
David Buttolph	Composer (Music Score)
Lewis Seiler	Director
Fred Allen	Editor
Emil Newman	Musical Direction/Supervision
Bryan Foy	Producer
Jerry Cady	Screenwriter
Lamar Trotti	Screenwriter
Fred J. Rode	Set Designer
Thomas K. Little	Set Designer
Harry M. Leonard	Sound/Sound Designer
Fred Sersen	Special Effects

Genre
War

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