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The Fighting Sullivans [VHS]

Anne Baxter (Actor), Thomas Mitchell (Actor), Lloyd Bacon (Director) Rated:

Format: VHS Tape

284 customer reviews

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Actors: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall
Directors: Lloyd Bacon
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Rated:
PG
Parental Guidance Suggested
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Ivy Video
VHS Release Date: May 1, 1991
Run Time: 110 minutes
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (284 customer reviews)
ASIN: B00000F06S
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,940 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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The Fighting Sullivans (VHS)

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A movie you won't forget!

ByTJon December 16, 2014

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You won't be sorry you purchased this movie. It is based on a TRUE story and the acting in superb. Saving Private Ryan is based on this
movie. The armed services do not send siblings to the same place anymore because of what happened to the Sullivan brothers.
If you enjoy vintage movies you won't be disappointed.
I ordered for Christmas gifts for my kids who were born in the 60's and 70's. They need to know what some families went through to fight
for our freedom. This movie says it all.
Have a blessed Merry Christmas everyone!

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A Memorable Story

ByMr Graham J Shipstoneon October 28, 2013

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I first saw The Sullivans as an eleven year old in 1945. I loved it, First because I could so easily relate to the boyhood activities of the Sullivan boys, and second, I found two scenes near the end of the movie so moving and heart wrenching that I never forgot them, and they explain why,so many years later, I have bought the DVD of the The Fighting Sullivans (always just The Sullivans in Australia). The scene in which Ward Bond as a naval officer, visits the Sullivan family home to break the tragic news has stood the test of time. To Mrs Sullivan's question "Which one?" the naval officer replies, Äll five." A shattered Mr Sullivan then says he has to go to work;he has not missed a day in his job over many years as a freight conductor(In Australia he would have been a railway guard). We know that the train he gets on will pass the tank stand where his five young children used to stand to wave to their father as the train passed by. This time, in 1942,the tank stand is empty, and the five Sullivan brothers are all dead, all dying after the USS Juneau was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the South Pacific. A memorable story!;

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The Fighting Sullivans

ByGus Rogon January 16, 2014

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This is a great true story about five brothers who join the Navy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were always together as kids and wanted to stay together in the Navy. They did serve on the same ship that was bombed and all five brothers were killed. Because of this incident a rule was instituted that no brothers could serve on the same ship. The movie opens up with them being born, baptized, and making their first Communion. The youngest boy helping his brothers in a fight gets a black eye on the eve of his First Holy Communion. Their mother carts them off to see the priest for forgiveness. It's another great movie from the 40s and one that the entire family can enjoy.

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Great Film, Slapdash Discs

ByAuntie Analogueon June 8, 2013

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This two-disc commemorative edition of 'The Fighting Sullivans' contains on its Disc One a decent print/transfer of the title film, and on its Disc Two a fine selection of special features, including speeches by and interviews with some of the last survivors of the sinking of the USS Juneau. The problem is the quality of the DVD's, which is poor.

Let's begin with the DVD sleeve cover image, which shows in sailor uniforms five men who are NOT in the film - I don't know why the producers of this set didn't simply do a screen capture of the scene from the film for this sleeve cover image, instead of substituting an image of five anonymous men who do not appear in the film.

Then comes Disc One, whose subtitles would not switch off when I pressed my remote control to switch them off; and I found that all the other controls on the remote - pause, fast-forward, reverse, and even STOP (!) - did not work, and so the movie just kept on playing through; and even when the film ended and the disc reverted to display the DVD menu, none of my remote's controls activated, or even navigated to, any of the options on the menu screen - and the STOP button on my remote would not stop the disc from menu display, so that I had to switch off the power to my disc player to get the disc to stop playing its menu display. Also, the film's subtitles suffer from several misspelling howlers, including, but not limited to, "Road Island Red" for the Sullivan family's Rhode Island Red hen, and "Kathryn Mary" for Al Sullivan's wife Katherine Mary.

Then there's Disc Two, whose special featurs contain a great deal of fine pictorial and video historical material on the Sullivan brothers, their sister Genevieve, their mother and father, their life in Waterloo, Iowa, on their descendents, and on the museum devoted to the Sullivans in their Iowa hometown. The problem with the special feature videos is that they appear to have been taped originally with a videocassette recorder, and the video thus suffers from the limitation of that earlier technology, and suffers again from its transfer to the DVD medium: images are grainy, audio is muddy. The quality of the still images of old photos of the Sullivans and other special feature subjects is only fair.

I don't know that the historical material in this two-disc set is available elsewhere on DVD, but it's all pretty muddy on this set, and yet it contains a great deal of information pertinent to the real Sullivans, so I have mixed feelings about this paradox purely because of the slapdash DVD production and because of the unresponsiveness of the DVD to my player's remote controls.

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and remember the horrible incident when it occurred and was detailed in a ...

ByWade M. Williamson July 21, 2016

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I was 10 years old when the five brothers lost their lives in the navy during the pacific naval battles of WWII, and remember the horrible incident when it occurred and was detailed in a news release by Pathe news reel at the local theater. Graciously portrayed by all the actors and actresses. It was also the first movie for the lovable young Bobby Driscol who played the youngest of the five brothers as young children.

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You will not be disappointed. I DID like it their fateful ending was ...

BySarah J. Valention September 16, 2016

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True story of the 5 Sullivan brothers. Nostalgic and with a very warm family feeling, mixed with much humor. You will not be disappointed. I DID like it their fateful ending was only about the last 13 minutes of the movie. I liked ithat much of the movie was spent on their childhoods. You will enjoy this movie. I also liked it that the 5 adult sons were unknown actors.