To The Shores Of Tripoli

Director	H. Bruce Humberstone
Release year	1942
Genre	Drama / Romance / War
My watch history	2024-02-13
Actors	John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Schott, Nancy Kelly, William Tracy, Maxie Rosenbloom, Harry Morgan, Edmund MacDonald
IMDB	IMDB

Review

A young man is sent to marines by his father who wants to make his boy a man. An officer who is responsible for these young man training is a friend of this man whom son gets there. He is good, but he is arrogant and does not fit very well to army since he lacks some qualities what is excepted from him. In the end he will find his call when Japan attacks and he rather go to war than to the office job.

This was good and interesting movie. Characters are good, but quite shallow. Still they work well in this kind of movie where the scene itself is quite theatrical. Somehow this also feels like a propaganda movie, or at least a movie what is meant to grow nationalistic identity and to give young man a passion to join the marines. Glorified version of army and meaning to fight is naive at least in the eyes of modern non-american viewer.

Still, I find this movie enjoyable to watch.

Review written: 2024-02-13