The Fighting Sullivans a.k.a. The Sullivans | |
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Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
Written by | Edward Doherty Mary C. McCall Jr. Jules Schermer |
Produced by | Sam Jaffe Robert Kane |
Starring | Anne Baxter Thomas Mitchell Selena Royle Edward Ryan Trudy Marshall John Campbell James Cardwell John Alvin George Offerman Jr. |
Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | 2.429,684 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.