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Production Year: 1966 - War - Director: John Guillermin - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Anton Diffring, Karl Michael Vogler
This a great film which my partner and I (both late 20's) found unexpectedly moving. Not suitable for people of a squeamish nature or who find action/war films uninteresting, but great for people with a passing interest in World War 2 and who appreciate fact-based plots and storylines.
Well worth watching! ...
Vixterbelle 30.12.2008
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Set during World War II, this is the story of two US Marines who are assigned the task of protecting Navajo Marines. The Navajo have been training to use a secret military code based on their own language. Will the Japanese be able to break the code...
Release details
DVD Region
Blu-ray
Studio(s)
MGM ENTERTAINMENT; 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
14/05/2007
Catalogue No
2289607000
Barcode
5039036033305
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Interactive menu
Aspect Ratio
2.40 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
DTS 5.1
DVD Description
Set during World War II, this is the story of two US Marines who are assigned the task of protecting Navajo Marines. The Navajo have been training to use a secret military code based on their own language. Will the Japanese be able to break the code. WINDTALKERS begins quietly with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It's 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret military code based on the Navajo language. Yahzee and Whitehorse are to be trained as code talkers. Then John Woo's Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage). Badly wounded and feeling guilty at the loss of his companions, Joe recuperates in Hawaii where he is helped by a sympathetic nurse (Frances O'Connor). Joe disguises his hearing loss and he is promoted as Yahzee's battlefield bodyguard. Ordered to protect the code at all times, Joe must prevent Yahzee from being captured. At first, Yahzee and Whitehorse, whose bodyguard is Ox Henderson (Christian Slater), are subjected to prejudice particularly from Rogers (Noah Emmerich). But when the unit is shipped to Saipan, the Marines begin to appreciate the code talkers. Director Woo has created a powerful drama. The visceral battle sequences are strikingly filmed and there is fine acting from Cage, Beach, Willie, Slater, Emmerich, and Frances O'Connor, who portrays the poignancy of love in uncertain times.
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