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President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his White House desk: a coconut encased in plastic. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109. Academy Award winner* Cliff Robertson stars in this stirring saga of Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a PT boat in the Solomon Islands. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing a badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island. There seemed little hope of rescue from the Japanese-dominated area until a strategy involving a coconut emerged. The triumphant outcome was unbelievable -- and all true!
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- PG
- Originally Released
- 1963
- Runtime
- 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Cliff Robertson;Ty Hardin;James Gregory;Robert Culp;Grant Williams
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.