Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269729 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6300269728 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 01, 1992 Running Time: 140 minutes Sales Rank: 2515 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 19, 1963
Amazon.com: John F. Kennedy lived long enough to see this Hollywood account of his Navy career and his heroism following a ruthless attack by a Japanese ship on his small patrol craft. Cliff Robertson is an amiable choice to play Kennedy, though one won't find a lot of the late president's mannerisms in his performance. The key battle sequence, which finds Kennedy and his crew bloodied and battered while trying to stay alive in shark-infested waters, makes a big impression on young viewers. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - BASED ON A TRUE STORY!
PT 109 is a 1963 biographical movie which shows the events of John F. Kennedy's actions in command of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 as an officer of the United States Navy during World War II. The movie was adapted by Richard L. Breen, Vincent Flaherty and Howard Sheehan from the book PT 109: John F. Kennedy in WWII by Robert J. Donovan.
The movie stars Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory, Robert Culp, Robert Blake, Andrew Duggan (the uncredited narrator), Michael Pate and George Takei (uncredited as helmsman on Japanese destroyer, best known as Sulu of Star Trek). The exteriors ... Read More
Rating: - One Story of the War
This is the story of one "patrol torpedo" boat, expendable forces used to attack the enemy to do the most damage at the lowest cost. The opening scene tells how JFK wrangled a front-line combat position instead of an office job is some safe rear echelon location. There is soon a warm welcome to the front. JFK wanted to learn what they didn't teach at Harvard (like some other wealthy men). An air raid shows that danger is near. Can JFK get his boat in shape in a week? The commander is not a happy man. PT 109 needs work, and gets it to pass inspection. Its engines are old. JFK had a taste for chocolate ... Read More
Rating: - Where's The DVD
Hey---those of you who are in charge: How come this here movie isn't on
DVD or blu-ray, yet? Surely would like to see it happen, soon.
thank you
Rating: - PT 109
Great movie! I wish I could get a copy to play it on my DVD player, instead of having to dig out and hook up my old VCR when ever I want to watch it.
Rating: - Oustanding movie about fine man, and very good future President!
The absolute best performance of actor
Robertson's career. Story of young Lt.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who VOLUNTEERED
for hazardous PT boat duty in World War
II, despite his, brother and father's
previous role in Patriotic America First
Committee, that TRIED in vain to keep the
US out of World War II. Just like Pilot/
Aviator Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Kennedy
backed the Soviets down in '62 and prob-
ably kept the world from nuclear war, but
the Establishment keeps lying about alled-
ged affairs AFTER HE'S BEEN DEAD AND GONE
AND ... Read More
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