Fighting Sullivans

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital Mono - English

Disc 1: THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS

Disc 2: BONUS MATERIALS

Additional Release Material:

• Interview - Frank Holmgren - Last Survivor of the Sinking
• Featurette - 1. Video Inside the 5 Sullivan Brothers Veterans Museum
                    2. Message From Bob Neymeyer of the Grout Museum
                    3. Memorials from Family Members
                    4. Last Muster List
                    5. U.S.S. Juneau Action Account Letter By Lieutenant Roger W. O'Neal

Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

• Personal Letters
• A Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Interactive Features:

• Scene Selection

Description by OLDIES.com:

This is the movie that inspired Saving Private Ryan. It's the true story of five brothers who fought and died together when their ship, the American cruiser Juneau, was sunk in the South Pacific during World War II. The Fighting Sullivans is something more than a worthy tribute to a pair of small town parents and the five sons they lost when the Juneau blew up in a battle off Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. It is a heartwarming slice of Americana that will fill in the background of any number of Americans on the fighting front. The audience's awareness of the news in store for the Sullivan family adds considerably to the film's effect. The Fighting Sullivans generates emotion strictly on it's own terms and without bidding for tears. This commemorative Edition marks the 63rd anniversary of the sinking of the Juneau.

Product Description:

The wartime forerunner of the story told in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) is this emotionally gripping depiction of the Sullivan boys of Waterloo, Iowa. Amid all the tales of personal tragedy in WW II, this one stands out. The five inseparable brothers enlisted together after Pearl Harbor and were all assigned to a battleship that ended up at Guadalcanal--where all five brothers died in action. A moving tribute to those who gave their lives in the last world war.

Plot Keywords:

Brothers | Drama | Family Interaction | Tear Jerker | True Story | War | World War II

Cast and Crew: