Best portions of this pic are the straight battle sequences, many of which were made up of footage taken at the actual fighting at Tarawa and Iwo Jima. John Wayne stands head and shoulders above ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

Now, IMDb has ranked the very best John Wayne World War II movies, and Sands of Iwo Jima isn't even in the Top 3. " data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-portal-copyright="GETTY" data-licensor-name ...

From "The Searchers" to "Rio Bravo," John Wayne is synonymous ... The ceremony in question saw Wayne and Broderick Crawford receive nominations for Allan Dwan's "Sands of Iwo Jima" and Robert ...