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Released
1942 · FILM

Wake Island

Leathernecks... writing another glorious chapter of purposeful courage in America's history!

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Runtime
87 min
ActionDramaWar

Synopsis

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Frank BrachtShot by William C MellorScored by David Buttolph

Also known as

  • La isla de la venganzaes
  • La Sentinelle du Pacifiquefr
  • L'isola della gloriait

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