"Letters From Iwo Jima" is a necessary movie; too bad it's not a great movie. The first major film made by an American -- Clint Eastwood -- to tell the story of the war in the Pacific from the ...
John Wayne finally won his sole acting Oscar in 1970, but he arguably should have gotten it 20 years earlier for his greatest war movie, Sands of Iwo Jima. The 1949 film is a gritty and intensely ...
Marine Sgt. John Stryker (John Wayne) is despised by his own men for his rough attitude and exhausting training regimen. As the war in the Pacific progresses, though, they begin to respect Stryker's ...