26 Jun 1987
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
This Is the Army
It's your own army - in the army's own show!
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Top Billed Cast
George Murphy Jerry Jones
Joan Leslie Eileen Dibble
George Tobias Maxie Twardofsky
Alan Hale Sergeant McGee
Charles Butterworth Eddie Dibble
Dolores Costello Mrs. Davidson
Una Merkel Rose Dibble
Stanley Ridges John Davidson
Rosemary DeCamp Ethel Jones
Ruth Donnelly Mrs. O'Brien
Dorothy Peterson Mrs. Nelson
Frances Langford Herself
Gertrude Niesen World War One Vocalist
Kate Smith Herself
Ronald Reagan Johnny Jones
Joe Louis Joe Louis
Dan Dailey Soldier (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth Soldier (uncredited)
Gary Merrill Backstage MP on Right (uncredited)
Gene Nelson Soldier (uncredited)
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