The Fighting Sullivans

The Fighting Sullivans
a.k.a. The Sullivans
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Directed byLloyd Bacon
Written byEdward Doherty
Mary C. McCall Jr.
Jules Schermer
Produced bySam Jaffe
Robert Kane
StarringAnne Baxter
Thomas Mitchell
Selena Royle
Edward Ryan
Trudy Marshall
John Campbell
James Cardwell
John Alvin
George Offerman Jr.
CinematographyLucien N. Andriot
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • February 3, 1944 (1944-02-03)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office2.429,684 admissions (France)[1]
$1 million (US rentals)[2]

The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr., and Jules Schermer. It was nominated for a now-discontinued Academy Award for Best Story.

The story retells, with some poetic license, the lives of five Irish-American Sullivan brothers, who grew up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and served together in the United States Navy during World War II.