Attack! The Battle for New Britain
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Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Pacific theatre of World War Two, and the handicaps of the wild jungle in addition to the Japanese snipers and pill-box emplacements.
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Cast
8 people
Leo Genn
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Moby Dick
Quo Vadis
Burgess Meredith
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Rocky
Clash of the Titans
Robert Presnell Sr.
Frank Capra
Also in
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Hollywood sul Tevere
Anthony Veiller
Narrator (voice)
Lloyd Nolan
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Hannah and Her Sisters
Island in the Sky
Douglas MacArthur
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Kamikaze: An Untold History
Assignment in Korea
Walter Krueger
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra Director · Robert Presnell Sr. Writer Dimitri Tiomkin Composer
United States release June 20, 1944 · Produced in United States · Production U.S. Army Signal Corps, U.S. War Department
Production
U.S. Office of War Information
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U.S. Army Signal Corps
Production
U.S. War Department
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 20, 1944
Theatrical
Czechia
April 3, 2005 · Febio Film Festival
Denmark
October 8, 1945
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