| Marine Raiders | |
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| Directed by | Harold D. Schuster Robert Wise (additional scenes) |
| Written by | Martin Rackin Warren Duff |
| Produced by | Robert Fellows |
| Starring | Pat O'Brien Robert Ryan Ruth Hussey |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Edited by | Philip Martin Jr. |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Distributed by | RKO |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Marine Raiders is a 1944 RKO war film showing a fictional depiction of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Parachute Battalion on Guadalcanal, R&R in Australia, retraining in Camp Elliott (where much of the film was made) and a fictional attack in the Solomon Islands. Produced by Robert Fellows, and directed by Harold D. Schuster, it stars Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, and Ruth Hussey.
The film depicts fictionalized accounts of the Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-1943), the Battle of Edson's Ridge (1942), and the Bougainville Campaign (1943-1945). The Western Desert Campaign (1940-1943) is mentioned as a concurrent event, but not actually depicted on-screen.