The Fighting Seabees

The United States Naval Construction Battalions were known as The Navy Seabees, and this John Wayne vehicle gives another heavily fictionalized account of its formation, and how they got their nickname during WWII. It gives Wayne the chance to act tough, shout a lot, and…

Andy Summers 🤠

Looks like our team got in over our headsFirst time watch: June 2021 Source: Film4 The Fighting Seabees is the 1944 war film directed by Edward Ludwig. The film stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe and William Frawley in a story of a construction company…

Benjamin Green

It's an interesting war film, but it's not the best thing I've watched. At least the battle sequences are brilliantly done.

LynchFan02

61/100 Fairly typical wartime propaganda, except that it was written by Borden Chase (Red River, Winchester '73, Bend of the River, etc.), who's never satisfied with simplicity. So we get a face-off between Dennis O'Keefe as the face of military bureaucracy, with its…

Mike D'Angelo

Natasha must be Killdozer's mom, one badass piece of heavy machinery right there. Has a pretty enjoyable love triangle, a nice character arc and a big climactic battle. A solid war movie for sure.

PizzaHutJoe

Hot-headed John Wayne war-time propaganda. The Fighting Seabees has a lot of talking, really unconvincing location shooting, and a thin plot. It is a fictionalised account of the US Navy creating a Construction Batallion (seabees - CBs - get it) to build stuff during WW2;…

Wilson

A decent if somewhat by the numbers war film that I feel like I've seen before and done better.

JT7201

General War Film #73 (War) (WW II) Part of My Recently Seen Movies By Theme List In this 1944 wartime film, we have a John Wayne vehicle that depicts the story of the US Navy Construction Battalions which came to be known as The Fighting Seabees. Wayne plays Wedge…

LeeJK56

World War II propaganda is always an iffy proposition, but as per usual, I indulged my mom's Netflix choice. We agree that The Fighting Seabees is a mediocre feature from the low-budget Republic Pictures studio, muddling a threadbare screenplay about a US Navy weaponry…

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