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    They Were Expendable -- (Movie Clip) What Is Your Rank?

    Torpedo boat skipper Ryan (John Wayne), furious at being sent to the hospital after getting his first decent mission, takes his frustration out on nurse and lieutenant Sandy (Donna Reed), in John Ford's They Were Expendable, 1946.

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