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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

having just watched this excuse for a movie once again, I find it hard to understand how people take notice of such ridiculous and dumb propaganda. obviously made during the war years aimed at immature youngsters between the ages of six and recruitment age. any similarity between actual military service and what takes place in this movie is purely accidental. one has to be extremely gullible to believe anything other than the names of cast, and the titles. military rules are NOT broken on a regular basis just to make you love the corps even more. and marines are definitely not as dumb or childish as they are portrayed in this movie

William Manchester was an award winning novelist, reporter, historian, biographer, and friend of John F. Kennedy. His account of his experiences in combat on Okinawa are among the most vivid ever published. And this is the movie that prompted him to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II.Manchester was impressed, he says, by the same elements of the movie that I say will impress the ordinary viewer of today. Marine Corps boot camp is a lot of fun with plenty of jocular fellows to play grabass with. Your Drill Instructor looks like Randolph Scott. He's stern and crusty on the outside, but underneath that he's a concerned and devoted friend. (Underneath THAT he's a real mean son of a gun.) You get to wear snappy uniforms and after boot camp, why it's nothing but dress blues. Your training takes place in the impeccably kempt Camp Pendleton under the blazing blue skies of San Diego. Once you finish boot camp you go to Sea School and get to take a sea-going vacation aboard a battleship. Oh, there's always Randolph Scott around to say things like, "Step to it, men," but the tone is always avuncular.On top of that, you -- a mere enlisted man -- get to make out with the stunning Maureen O'Hara, who was about twenty years old at the time. She's a lieutenant and you're supposed to do no more than salute her but nobody pays attention to these silly rules. It's all photographed in gorgeous Technicolor and you know what? Maureen O'Hara is a drop-dead hottie even without flaming red hair.Man, is John Payne lucky. Well, maybe not THAT lucky. He was supposed to wind up happily married to O'Hara, both devoted to a peaceful military routine, but half-way through the shoot, the plot was interrupted by some uncommonly rude Japanese who attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Poor Zanuck, the producer, had to stick on a brief prologue about "the current conflict" and change the ending so that Payne, Scott, O'Hara, and all the boys climb aboard a troop transport for the Pacific, enthusiastically singing the Marine Corps hymn accompanied by a marching band. What a fantasy.Want to see what happened to William Manchester? Read his awesome memoir: "Good-bye, Darkness."

To the Shores of Tripoli is the kind of movie that I generally don't care for. The title may conjure images of Marines fighting and dying on some foreign shore, but you won't find that here. Instead you'll find a flag-waving recruitment film that makes Marine basic training look like a trip to summer camp. The movie makes it seem that the entire eight week training is made up of little more than marching and doing drills in a parking lot. And when these guys aren't in the parking lot, they're pulling pranks and wooing nurses they've been told to leave alone. Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates has more in the way of military realism than To the Shores of Tripoli.Yet despite all its shortcomings, forced patriotism, and light as air plot, I enjoyed To the Shores of Tripoli. I was somehow able to put my brain on hold and go along for the ride. It's harmless, good-natured fun. Most of my enjoyment probably comes from the three main leads. John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, and Randolph Scott do a solid job with what they're given to work with. Much of the comedy works, particularly the hospital scene where Payne fakes an injury to be near O'Hara. And, To the Shores of Tripoli has an innocence to it that you don't find in movies anymore that I find appealing.

Not a horrible movie overall, but not a patch on the 1926 silent feature with Lon Chaney as the tough Marine sergeant who has to whip a sassy new recruit into shape, and they come to respect each other, and there's a pretty nurse they both like, and yaddayaddayadda. The plot here is changed a bit, but there's little doubt that it's the same movie, and while Payne and Scott are both solid actors, they can hardly compete with the Man of a Thousand Faces, who was one of the greatest actors who ever lived, with or without makeup. Here it seems like they're too concerned with prettifying the Marine Corps, as opposed to showing the genuine drama involved in the process of training young men to kill and die for their country. The original film was more believable, and much appreciated within the Marine Corps. It had a more compelling story, vastly better acting, and is definitely worth checking out.I think the others who have commented here have summed up the picture's strengths and failings. I just wanted to set the record straight--this movie is a remake, so it shouldn't be considered the wellspring of films like "An Officer and a Gentleman" (a very good movie) and "Pearl Harbor" (a wretchedly awful movie). "Tell It To The Marines" is the wellspring of ALL these films, and the best of the bunch by a long shot. Though it doesn't have a naked Debra Winger writhing on top of Richard Gere, obviously. Eleanor Boardman makes a lovely military nurse, but she keeps her clothes on at all time. (g)I only watched "To the Shores of Tripoli" because I mistakenly thought it was going to be the 1950 release "Tripoli", starring Payne as one of the very first Marines, back in Thomas Jefferson's administration, taking on Barbary Pirates and such. Maureen O'Hara plays a seductive countess who wears various lowcut slinky numbers. Now THAT's entertainment!