The Fighting Sullivans - Commemorative Edition
The Guts and Glory of the Navy! This is the movie that inspired "Saving Private Ryan." It's the true story of five brothers who fought and died together when their ship, the American cruiser Juneau, was sunk in the South Pacific during World War II. The Fighting Sullivans is something more than a worthy tribute to a pair of small town parents and the five sons they lost when the Juneau blew up in a battle off Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. It is a heartwarming slice of Americana that will fill in the background of any number of Americans on the fighting front. The audience's awareness of the news in store for the Sullivan family adds considerably to the film's effect. The Fighting Sullivans generates emotion strictly on it's own terms and without bidding for tears. This Commemorative Edition marks the 63rd anniversary of the sinking of the Juneau. DVD features: 2005 Interview with Frank Holmgren (last living survivor of the sinking)| Video Inside the 5 Sullivan Brothers Veterans Museum| A message from Bob Neymeyer of the Grout Museum| Family Photos| Last Muster List| Memorials from family members| Survivor List| Juneau Action account letter by Lieutenant Roger W O'Neil ? Mc-V (G) U S Naval Reserve| Personal Letters| Letter from President Franklin D Roosevelt| New Digital Transfer| Original Theatrical Trailer.
The Fighting Sullivans - Commemorative Edition Accessories
 Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
We Band of Brothers: The Sullivans & World War II
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Boys Town
To Hell and Back
The Best Years of Our Lives
So Proudly We Hail (Universal Cinema Classics)
The Long Gray Line
Since You Went Away
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Fighting Sullivans - Commemorative Edition Reviews
The movie is all about the background of the boys, how they grew up, the relationship they had as brothers, their fighting spirit and how they tried to make sure they stayed together in the military (in this case the Navy) during the war. I have to be honest, since I was looking at this film for use in my class I was hoping for more story of them on the ship but that part takes all of about 10 minutes. I saw this movie when I was a kid of course and now that I teach US History was hoping that it might work in place of the ever popular Saving Private Ryan. But as far as good old movies go - this is a delight.
Saw this movie many many years ago, all i can say is, if you have never seen it, you really got watch it at lease once.
So six should be a better number and actually it is reached with the daughter and that brings the family to eight, Christ in his glory. Five is a strange number. Note when the five boys are dead, if we take into account the wife of the youngest son and their son that makes five again. Five is a deeply pagan number associated with life, the enjoyment of life and here it is inverted by the tragic death of the five sons leaving five people behind them. That is also surprising because of the satanic dimension of this number in a catholic dimension, and this inversion is typically American: the revisiting and de-diabolizing of this number, especially since they become heroes and their name is given to a war ship. Apart from that the film is nothing but propaganda, even when showing the suffering of the survivors, parents, sister and wife: very soft suffering indeed. Note the last vision of them is a dream when the ship is christened: four sons at first in two groups of two and the fifth one, the only married one, the youngest one coming running after. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines.
The Sullivans are a good Catholic Irish family. Never put all your eggs in the same basket. One little war propaganda film that has a certain charm. And then this number five becomes the basic symbol of the western civilization, the five fingers of a hand, the five senses and so many other things that come in five, especially the five cent nickel. Yet the film has a charm beyond that and the charm comes from the number five, for one, and the reversal of age order for two.
That is no heroism in itself. The charm comes from the five brothers that can never do anything separately. That is just slightly sad and moving. If that basket gets run over you lose all your eggs. By insisting on being the five of them on the same ship they were all killed at the same time.
I remember watching this movie as a child and I loved it back then as I do today. My children also loved this movie and enyoyed watching it. This is an excellent movie about families sticking together through out their entire life.
Whatever the reason, it is always inspiring to see families that came before my time that fought for my freedoms. This movie was made during the war and of course as an adult that is a history buff, I can see that this movie was used to sell war bonds. I saw this movie for the first time on a very late night while I was baby sitting as a young teenager. MKM I grew up with parents from the mid-west and then moved to the west. Thank you for making this movie available. My whole life I was taught to support our country, our flag and show respect to our soldiers. I fell in love with the family and the partriotism.
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