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    They Were Expendable -- (Movie Clip) Jap Task Force

    Hopes are raised when Ryan (John Wayne) and fellow P-T boat captains see a chance for action, then dashed when Brickley (Robert Montgomery) gets orders from the admiral (Charles Trowbridge), in They Were Expendable, 1945.

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They Were Expendable -- (Movie Clip) Jap Task...
Hopes are raised when Ryan (John Wayne) and fellow P-T boat...
They Were Expendable -- (Movie Clip) Jap Task Force
Hopes are raised when Ryan (John Wayne) and fellow P-T boat captains see a chance for action, then dashed when Brickley (Robert Montgomery) gets orders from the admiral (Charles Trowbridge), in They Were Expendable, 1945.>
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They Were Expendable
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They Were Expendable - (Original Trailer)
A Navy commander (John Wayne) fights to prove the effectiveness of the PT boat at the start of WW II in They Were Expendable (1945).>
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Director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich introduces John Ford's classic World War II actioner They Were Expendable (1945) for TCM's The Essentials.>
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Navy nurse and almost-girlfriend Sandy (Donna Reed) joins Rusty Ryan (John Wayne), his superior Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and cohorts for dinner and sentiment in the Philippines, in John Ford's They Were Expendable, 1945.>
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Japanese planes in attack formation over Manila Bay, Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and his exec Ryan (John Wayne) sense a chance to demonstrate the value of their often overlooked Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron, early in John Ford's They Were Expendable, 1945.>
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