MacArthur (film)

MacArthur is a 1977 American biographical war film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the eponymous role as American General Douglas MacArthur.

Plot

The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

Cast

• Gregory Peck as General Douglas MacArthur
• Ed Flanders as President Harry S. Truman
• Dan O'Herlihy as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Ivan Bonar as Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland
• Ward Costello as General George C. Marshall
• Nicolas Coster as Colonel Sidney Huff
• Marj Dusay as Mrs. Jean MacArthur
• Art Fleming as William Averell Harriman
• Russell Johnson as Admiral Ernest J. King
• Sandy Kenyon as Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright
• Robert Mandan as Rep. Martin
• Allan Miller as Colonel Legrande A. Diller
• Addison Powell as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
• James Shigeta (deleted scenes) as General Yamashita

Factual errors

• In a meeting in Pearl Harbor between US President Roosevelt, Admiral Nimitz, and MacArthur to discuss East Asian strategy, MacArthur points to Lingayen Gulf in Western Luzon, calling it Leyte Gulf, and referring to it as the site of his re-entry to the Philippines.
• The Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of Leyte, which included MacArthur's first return to Philippine soil on 20 October 1944, were in the Visayas, the archipelagic Central Philippines.
• The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf, with MacArthur making a similarly dramatic landing in the main island of Luzon, occurred on January 9, 1945.
• The film depicts only one landing followed by a visit by MacArthur to a camp in Luzon housing survivors of the Bataan Death March; however, a telegram sent to MacArthur prior to this scene mentions the October date of the earlier Leyte landing.
• The camouflage covers on the M1 Helmet were actually surplus from Vietnam, and did not resemble those of World War II.

Reception

MacArthur received mixed reviews, it currently holds a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[2]

References

External links

• MacArthur at the Internet Movie Database
• MacArthur at AllRovi
• MacArthur at Rotten Tomatoes