Gung Ho!

Gung Ho!
Directed byRay Enright
Written byLt. W. S. LeFrançois USMCR (based on his Saturday Evening Post story "We Mopped Up Makin Island")
Screenplay byLucien Hubbard
Joseph Hoffman
Produced byWalter Wanger
StarringRandolph Scott
CinematographyMilton R. Krasner
Edited byMilton Carruth
Music byFrank Skinner
Production
company
Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • December 20, 1943 (1943-12-20) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$866,898[1]
Box office$2,176,489[1]

Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott. The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.

  1. ^ a b Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent, University of Minnesota Press, 2000, p. 442