The Fighting Lady
by William Wyler
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Actor: Robert TaylorDirector: William Wyler
Brand: GT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 62 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Good Times Video
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Movie Review: WW II Aircraft Carrier - Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a William Wyler documentary filmed upon an aircraft carrier built and commission after Pearl Harbor. This hour plus long documentary filmed in color was screened in theaters in 1944 about a couple months or so after the operations had taken place. It shows life aboard this newly commissioned aircraft carrier as it sails southward from its eastern seaboard home port through the Panama Canal, as she was designed too do, and onto her destination, the Pacific Theater of Operations. This gray lady goes on to see much action in the Pacific theater of operations.
We see everything from daily life of preparing meals, doing laundry, to the pilots and crews who this great class of ship was built for. And you are aware that ever person on the ship also has a combat station with preassigned duties. The documentary has the first plane landing on the new floating runway through the many hard fought engagements that comprised the attacks on Marcus Island, Kawjalen, Truk, and Battle of the Philippine Sea known as "The Marianas Turkey Shoot." All footage if actual combat footage that was extremely well done.
Robert Taylor, USNR, does the narration and does an excellent job in explaining what is not only obvious but the feelings the crew felt at the time of the filming. Though his narration does not convey the stress and boredom that waiting for actual combat entails he does share these truths. The film though obviously edited for the American public does show even the loss of life and burial at sea of the men loss in warfare. Well done documentary made to inform and garner support for war bond drive. Well worth getting though it would have been even better if released in wide screen.
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