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Sayonara

Poster for the movie "Sayonara"
Poster for the movie "Sayonara"

Sayonara (1957)

147 min - Drama, Romance - 25 December 1957
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Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Director:  Joshua Logan
Stars:  Marlon Brando, P...
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The Longest Day

Poster for the movie "The Longest Day"
Poster for the movie "The Longest Day"

The Longest Day (1962)

178 min - War, Action, Drama - 25 September 1962
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Writers:  David Pursall, Jack Seddon, James Jones, Romain Gary
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