Flying Leathernecks
film by Ray [1951]
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discussed in biography
- In Nicholas Ray: Films of the early 1950s
In Flying Leathernecks (1951) Ryan played a bleeding-heart Marine officer who tries to persuade a hard-as-nails major (John Wayne) to lighten up on the recruits, and then in the unsettling thriller On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ryan took on the role of a sadistic frustrated cop on…
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