Return to Guam (1944)

1944 · Short film · 39 min · dir. Richard Brooks

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Synopsis

Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a convoy of ships nearing the island sees strange lights flashing from the island in Morse code "information". After cautiously investigating the signal, they find that it was made by a white man, George Tweed, the last survivor of the original garrison at Guam. Tweed relates his harrowing story of how he survived in the bush for 31 months with the…

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Details

Director

Richard Brooks

Released

1944-03-14

Running time

39 minutes

Cast & crew

• Richard Brooks Director
• GGeorge Tweed

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