They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable is a 1945 Academy Award-nominated war film directed by John Ford and starring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Ward Bond, and Cameron Mitchell. I don't really care for war movies and watched this for Cameron Mitchell, but I dare say if war movies are your thing you'll like this one. I mean how can you go wrong with that director and cast?

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The NYT at the time of its release called it "a stirring picture of a small but vital aspect of the war and ... it is a moving remembrance of things past". DVD Talk concludes, "They Were Expendable gives you John Wayne, John Ford in a World War II movie, so in and of itself it should be something on your watch list. But it goes a little deeper and a little more nuanced in the component of the war that they tell the story about". Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 89%.