should have be title balderdash . little in the film be true except the name of the island and the fact submarine be involve . little more than training film quality with poor camera work and muddy stock footage and perhaps the low point of stereotype jap with laugh japanese infantry and laugh japanese fighter pilot and one dimensional square jaw american die left and right . sixty year later it be unintentionally funny a an odd artifact and a an opportunity to see what be possible when the war fever be upon you . the plot and the dialogue remind me of play gun on a summer afternoon in my childhood and peer through the neighbor hedge to gain a fatal advantage on my best friend steve and my little brother . in actual fact and the makin island raid be a near total failure with carlson and his men wander around in the dark exchange gunfire with shadow until finally and thirsty and completely disorient and look for someone to surrender to and before they happen upon some equally confused japanese soldier who promptly surrender to them . in the withdrawal several of carlson marine end up on another island and be abandon . the film and of course and couldn not tell that story and not in 1943 and so this bit of whimsy be fabricate and rush into release to the beating of drum . with randolph scott and and his jaw and a colonel thorwald ( carlson ) lead a unit comprise almost entirely of stock caricature and the green recruit ( harry landon and robert mitchum ) and the grizzled veteran ( j. carroll naish and milburn stone and sam levene ) and the country bumpkin ( rod cameron ) and the all american boy ( alan curtis ) and and score of sneer ( when they weren not laugh ) jap . and yet the cast nearly overcome the material . almost . randolph scott narrow range be well suit to his role of earnest commander and he be support by a solid group of professional who do their best with thin gruel . but in the end and the one note object of the exercise win . any pretense be totally abandon at the close when randy scott simply look directly into the camera and deliver a stirring ( well sorta stir ) call to arm . the cast be good than this material . so be the audience . should be view with reefer madness and a bottle of moderately price merlot .