Gung Ho! (1943)

"This is a factual record of the Second Marine Raider Battalion, from its inception seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, through its first brilliant victory," reads the opening titles of Gung Ho!, the 1943 war drama based on the Makin Island Raid of August, 1942. A few dramatic liberties aside, it’s a fairly accurate dramatization of the first major offensive action by the Americans after the attack upon Pearl Harbor.

Randolph Scott , Alan Curtis, Noah Beery, Jr., J. Carrol Naish

1943, B&W, 87 minutes