Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Harry Morgan
- Mouthy
- (as Henry Morgan)
Joseph Crehan
- Uncle Bob
- (scenes deleted)
John Hamilton
- Gen. Gordon
- (scenes deleted)
Iris Adrian
- Okay's Girlfriend
- (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Hugh Beaumont
- Orderly
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaMaureen O'Haras' first film in Technicolor. She looked so good in it that she later earned the nickname "Queen of Technicolor".
- GoofsIt is full daylight at 5:00 a.m.. By the angle of the shadow it is approximately 10:00 a.m.
- Quotes
Sgt. Dixie Smith: Good morning, Roberts.
Corporal: Good morning, Sergeant. You're up kind of early.
Sgt. Dixie Smith: Yeah, I'm expecting a guest.
Corporal: Don't tell me Cagney's coming down here to glorify the Marines again.
- ConnectionsEdited into All This and World War II (1976)
- SoundtracksI Know Why (and So Do You)
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played at the first dance and at various times throughout the picture
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Watching the Movie in 1942 in the South Pacific made it very real
I agree with the evaluation of bsmith5552 that it is a disappointing flagwaver, and essentially a U.S.Marine recruitment film. But it has its own place in history. I have just been refreshed as to that place in history by watching again the film version of Leon Uris's first (and maybe best) novel, Battle Cry. Uris dramatized his own experience as a young marine, first training in the States, then in Wellington and elsewhere in New Zealand and finally fighting in the islands of the Pacific He has a fascinating picture of what it was like for young Americans to find themselves in a strange and previously unheard of land like New Zealand. I was a Kiwi teenager in Wellington at that time and can vouch for the accuracy of Uris' depiction of the impact of the descent of thousands of young marines on our city and of their interaction with the locals. To the Shores of Tripoli screened in Wellington in 1942, not long after Pearl Harbor, in the time the newly formed Marine Divisions were there preparing for their involvement in the war in the South Pacific. Through that film we saw on our screens the training only months earlier of the men who were now in our midst. Bsmith5552 speaks of the repetitive sequences of close order drill. I watched the marine band perform those intricate marching exercises in colour film in a local cinema ("picture theatre" in our brand of English). This was the same week I saw them do it live in Wellington. I was transfixed as I saw utterly committed young marines rise and stand to attention in their places in the cinema as the Marines Hymn came through on the film's sound track. I was not simply present at a piece of entertainment. I was watching live drama. To the Shores of Tripoli may not have been a great movie. But in the South Pacific in 1942, when we (maybe unlike today's Iraquis) welcomed the Marines as life savers, preserving us from a Japanese invasion, it had its place in the drama of that time. I viewed it sixty years ago with great interest. I would like the little niche it has in cinema history to be remembered.
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- Sep 28, 2004
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- Gross US & Canada
- $2,300,000
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) officially released in India in English?
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