The Fighting Sullivans (DVD)

Emotional WWII melodrama recounts the true story of the five close-knit Irish-American Sullivan brothers from Iowa who fought together on the USS Juneau in the Pacific. During a battle off the Solomon Islands in November 1942, all five brothers went down with their ship, prompting the U.S. War Department to implement the Sole Survivor Policy. Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, John Alvin, John Campbell, James Cardwell, George Offerman, Jr. Co-star in this sentimental story that partly inspired "Saving Private Ryan." AKA: "The Sullivans." 112 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Region Free

Starring: Anne Baxter, Lucien N. Andriot, Thomas Mitchell, James Basevi, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall, John Campbell, James Cardwell, John Alvin, George Offerman Jr., Michael Chapin, Roy Roberts, Ward Bond, Leland Fuller, Mary McCarty, Bobby Driscoll, Rene Hubert, Nancy June Robinson, Marvin Davis, Sam Jaffe, Buddy Swan, Billy Cummings, Harry M. Leonard, Johnny Calkins, Thomas Little, Louis R. Loeffler, Selmer Jackson, Harry Shannon, Harry Strang, Barbara Brown, Larry Thompson, Addison Richards, Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman, Betty Farrington, Bobby Larson, Else Petersen, Gerald Mackey, Leon Tyler, Gene Collins, Charles Bates, Elsa Peterson, Merrill Rodin, Stephen Barclay, John Whitney, Fred Sersen, Mike Kilian, Grandon Rhodes, Frank Wilcox, George Lynn, Knox Manning, Joe Haworth, Bernie Sell, Mae Marsh