Gung Ho! | |
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Directed by | Ray Enright |
Written by | Lt. W. S. LeFrançois USMCR (based on his Saturday Evening Post story "We Mopped Up Makin Island") |
Screenplay by | Lucien Hubbard Joseph Hoffman |
Produced by | Walter Wanger |
Starring | Randolph Scott |
Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
Edited by | Milton Carruth |
Music by | Frank Skinner |
Production company | Walter Wanger Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $866,898[1] |
Box office | $2,176,489[1] |
Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott. The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.