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MacArthur (1977)

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Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: A biographical sketch of one of America's most famous generals. While delivering the farewell address to the students of West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur (Gregory Peck) reflects on the... A biographical sketch of one of America's most famous generals. While delivering the farewell address to the students of West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur (Gregory Peck) reflects on the events of his life: his achievements as the head of the American forces in the Pacific during World War II, his years governing postwar Japan, and his final campaign in Korea which led to clashes with President Harry S. Truman and his subsequent dismissal. [More]

Starring: Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Sandy Kenyon

Starring: Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Sandy Kenyon, Ivan Bonar, Ward Costello, Nicolas Coster, Marj Dusay

Director: Joseph Sargent

Director: Joseph Sargent
Screenwriter: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

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04/02/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Gregory Peck plays MacArthur as an intense and dignified general with an arrogant and well-defined sense of patriotism.

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01/23/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A woefully overblown biography with a wooden Indian Peck as MacArthur. He poses instead of acts.

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Bob Bloom
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Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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Jeremy Heilman
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