

Wake Island
Leathernecks... writing another glorious chapter of purposeful courage in America's history!
Genres
Overview
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
87 min
Release Date
1942-08-11
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
25
Vote Average
5.68
Brian Donlevy
Maj. Geoffrey Caton
Macdonald Carey
Lt. Bruce Cameron
Robert Preston
Pvt. Joe Doyle
William Bendix
Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall
Albert Dekker
Shad McClosky
Walter Abel
Cmdr. Roberts
Mikhail Rasumny
Ivan Probenzky
Rod Cameron
Capt. Pete Lewis
Bill Goodwin
Sgt. Higbee / Narrator (voice)
Damian O'Flynn
Capt. Bill Patrick
Frank Albertson
Johnny Rudd
Joyce Arleen
Cynthia Caton (uncredited)
Hugh Beaumont
Captain (uncredited)
Barbara Britton
Sally Cameron (uncredited)
Hillary Brooke
Girl at the Inn (uncredited)
James Brown
Wounded Marine (uncredited)
Robert Carson
Marine (uncredited)
Don Castle
Pvt. Cunkle (uncredited)
Luke Chan
Japanese Admiral (uncredited)
Spencer Chan
Japanese Captain (uncredited)
Jack Chapin
Squeaky Simpkins (uncredited)
Dane Clark
Sparks (uncredited)
Russ Clark
Sergeant Major (uncredited)
Max Cole
Marine Pilot (uncredited)
Angelo Cruz
Rodrigo (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Marine in Trench (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Commander (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
Mary Field
William Forrest
Paul Fung
Edmund Glover
Fred Graham
Alan Hale Jr.
Sam Hayes
Mitchell Ingraham
Jerry Jerome
Marvin Jones
Pete G. Katchenaro
Mike Lally
Tommy Lee
James B. Leong
Richard Loo
George Magrill
Patti McCarty
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart
Ivan Miller
James Millican
Jack Mulhall
Anthony Nace
Mike Ragan
Joey Ray
Keith Richards
Willard Robertson
Rudy Robles
Jack Shea
John Sheehan
Phillip Terry
Charles Trowbridge
Philip Van Zandt
Billy Wilkerson
Bruce Wong
Victor Wong
Charles Flynn
Marine Pilot
7.4
Kamome Diner
On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
2006-06-11 | ja
5.5
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
1987-05-01 | en
6.2
Summer with Kuro
Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants to keep the kitten, but her parents dismiss the idea. Nobuko eventually convinces them to let her keep it. She and her brother Makoto name the cat Kuro. Kuro quickly brings joy and laughter to the family. As World War II takes its toll on Japan, it becomes harder for Nobuko and her family to care for Kuro. One August morning, Kuro begins acting strangely...
1990-06-04 | ja
6.8
Ito
A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.
2021-06-25 | ja
0.0
The Last Train
The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the mother has committed adultery with a German, things start to go downhill for the father. Germans take over his land, and his children fend for themselves.
1975-09-04 | nl
6.8
Romancing the Stone
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
1984-03-30 | en
7.0
Before the Fall
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
2004-07-04 | de
6.4
Hart's War
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.
2002-02-15 | en
5.0
Great Times
The drama of the last days of the second world war through the eyes of children in rural areas.
1979-01-19 | sk
6.5
Dragonfly
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
2002-02-22 | en
5.2
Joy Division
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
2006-11-17 | en
6.9
No Way Out
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
1987-08-14 | en
7.0
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.
1999-12-11 | ja
6.6
Hamburger Hill
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
1987-08-07 | en
6.6
Samurai Fiction
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
1998-10-27 | ja
5.9
The Jungle Book
Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can find.
1994-12-23 | en
7.2
A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt
A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschkron, who tells the incredible tale of Weidt's efforts to save her and the rest of his employees from the Nazis, including Alice Licht, the love of Otto Weidt's life.
2014-01-06 | de
0.0
Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
1970-05-16 | ja
0.0
En enkel till Manila
2017-10-21 | sv
8.1
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
1987-06-26 | en