The read
Critics rate it 36 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 36 points higher than audiences do.
60 audience votes
Key crew
- Aeneas MacKenzieScreenplay
- Edward LudwigDirector
- Borden ChaseScreenplay
Cast
- John WayneLt. Cmdr. Wedge Donovan
- Susan HaywardConstance Chesley
- Dennis O'KeefeLt. Cmdr. Robert Yarrow
- William FrawleyEddie Powers
- Leonid KinskeyJohnny Novasky
- J.M. KerriganSawyer Collins
- Grant WithersWhanger Spreckles
- Paul FixDing Jacobs
- Ben WeldenYump Lumkin
- William ForrestLt. Tom Kerrick
- Addison RichardsCapt. Joyce
- Jay NorrisJoe Brick