Sunday, February 26, 2012

Report from the Aleutians (1943)


Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1944 Nominated Oscar Best Documentary, Features
(U.S. Army Pictorial Service).

Directed by John Huston
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, GoodTimes)

Matter-of-fact account of life on a remote Alaskan island which served as an air base for American bombers in WWII. We watch infantrymen build an air strip in a matter of days from scratch, using prefabricated steel parts for the runways. Rows of tents belch smoke in an otherwise barren landscape. It all leads to a bombing run over Kiska, another Aleutian island where the Japanese have dug in for the long haul. An uncredited John Huston directs and narrates.

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