The Fighting Seabees (1944) |
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| Director(s) | Edward Ludwig |
| Producer(s) | No producer listed for this movie |
| Top Genres | Action, Drama, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | World War II |
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John Wayne(as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
John Wayne
(as Lt. Cmdr. Wedge Donova...)
Susan Hayward(as Constance Chesley)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
Susan Hayward
(as Constance Chesley)
Dennis O'Keefe(as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Yarrow)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
Dennis O'Keefe
(as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Yarro...)
William Frawley(as Eddie Powers)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
William Frawley
(as Eddie Powers)
Leonid Kinskey(as Johnny Novasky)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
Leonid Kinskey
(as Johnny Novasky)
J.M. Kerrigan(as Sawyer Collins)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
J.M. Kerrigan
(as Sawyer Collins)
Grant Withers(as Whanger Spreckles)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
Grant Withers
(as Whanger Spreckles)
Paul Fix(as Ding Jacobs)
The Fighting Seabees
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1944
The Fighting Seabees
Released
1944
Paul Fix
(as Ding Jacobs)
The Fighting Seabees Overview:
The Fighting Seabees (1944) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Edward Ludwig .
Academy Awards 1944 --- Ceremony Number 17 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | Walter Scharf, Roy Webb | Nominated |
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This movie is considered a Second World War wartime propaganda film of the United States.
Republic, being as "thrifty" as they were, used a large number of stock shots from Flying Tigers for the scenes involving "enemy" aircraft.
The film's dedication states: "Proudly and gratefully we dedicate this picture to the Civil Engineer Corps and the Construction Battalions - the Seabees of the United States Navy who have fired the imagination of the world with their colorful exploits throughout the Seven Seas."
The film utilizes an oft-used storyline of the war movie genre which has two soldiers in love with the same girl.
The motto of the real Construction Battalion Seabees is: "We build, we fight". This is encapsulated in the line of dialogue said by Lieutenant Commander Robert Yarrow (Dennis O'Keefe) at film's end when he says: "We build for the fighters, we fight for what we build".