I am just glad they made a movie about Ira Hayes. My old boss was a Marine carrying a flame thrower on Tinian and got hit badly on Iwo Jima on the second day. He was a very honest man. This movie is a forerunner of Wind Talkers. I saw what alcohol did to Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico, and it was horribly sad. That was in 1974. God Bless our Natiive Americans. We sadly haven’t.
Curtis did good with this role but should hav cast a brown eyed man for role. How many full blood Indians do u see with blu eyes. This was a very good movie.
This biopic tells the story of Ira Hayes (Tony Curtis), a Pima Native American who helped lift the American flag over Iwo Jima, Japan. After enlisting in the Marines, Hayes suffers prejudice among his fellow soldiers but finds a friend in Jim Sorenson (James Franciscus). Both are immortalized in the famous World War II photo, but Sorenson is killed shortly after it is taken. When he returns to America, Hayes is greeted as a hero but suffers from survivor's guilt that drives him to alcoholism. Initial release: December 1961
I hope Tony Curtis got an Oscar for this movie, he was extremely convincing. It was a very good movie but very sad. He was someone who just wanted to do good.
Unless I saw this movie when it was first released I could not have seen it until the following year, 1962. I joined the USMC in August, 1961 the same year it was released. And unlike today where graduating Marines go on leave for 10 days, there was NO liberty nor any type breaks for SIXTEEN (16) weeks in the proverbial "Old Corps"! I did get leave once I checked in with my first permanent duty station at Camp Lejeune, but only AFTER it was determined there were no senior Marines wanting leave at the time. My, my...how things have changed... Have A Nice Day...Molon Labe...Semper Fi
@@captainbart "...Remarkable bable! and still no-one knows, if you saw the firm?..." that would depend upon which 'firm' you reference. But being one who never had much respect for officers, I would never let a Colonel upset me when I was young. And, me at 81-years-of-age, a mere captain hasn't a chance. Go to your dressing room and put some wax on your bald head right after you change that damned tee-shirt that shows your beer gut!! I know your type. Molon Labe...Semper Fi
@@captainbart When I referenced the 'Old Corps', I meant those that still were using the M1 Garand and BAR, wore what was known as USMC Battle Jackets, when there still were E3 Corporals and E4 Sergeants. Oh, you REALLY didn't know that there truly was a time those existed? You COULD learn something new EVERY day!!
God bless the Greatest Generation, especially the soldiers. Whether army, marines, navy, coast guard, air force, or merchant marine, they were all soldiers. They protected our mothers and fathers when they were children, so tt the following generations could B born, and live in freedom. That is why they R called the Greatest Generation.❤😊
I think Hayes would have survived if the powers that be had not tried to make a hero out of him and nobody knew who he was. For many people, anonymity is priceless.
If it weren't for programs, and AA, and family and shrinks, and a more tolerant society, I'd never have gotten off the bottle. It's everyone and every single day, yes one at a time, that makes a man sober. Back then especially if someone's got PTSD, long before that diagnosis was recognized, there was very little hope a person could cope. And that bottle just gets stronger and meaner and keeps calling.
messed up it didn't show him going through marine para training oh well none of the para marines got to jump into combat anyway , the para's just went island hopping with the rest of the grunts of the corps , still an ok movie for its time , on a side note curtis served in the us navy in the Pacific
Just one criticism .. PFC Ira Hayes went through "jump school' and earned his US Jump Wings to be a Paramarine. The uniform does not show US Jump Wings. Other than that, Semper Fi.
you gotta know that the para'marines never got to jump into combat they were used as straight leg grunts but cpl hayes was a bad a%$ and earned his place in history books of the Corps semper fi 81/85 = mos 03/11 and left mos 03/21
bit of a spoiler alert....Talk about double whammy...as a native american faced shocking racism, then fought in what I believe to america's most horrific WW2 battle, get thru that with severe PTSD and survivor guilt..just cannot imagine what these young guys sacrificed to live in a so called democracy
No native American actors right and not good but to get attention to this small film about a great piece of our history a star of status needed. The thought process may be off but I think it got the job done . Sad it had to be that wa Very!
I agree. I am pretty sure you have seen Wind Talkers about the Navajo code talkers in WWII. Without them we didn’t have a secure communication. I don’t know where you are from, I’m in central coast California. Wife’s uncle was a survivor of the Bataan death march in the Philippines in WWII. He was in a coal mine in Nagasaki working as slave labor when the Bomb hit in Japan. The second one. Hope you enjoy this rambling. But all true.
@@BigStack-vg6ku Needed to be grittier. More looks at what it was like landing and fighting at Iwo Jima. Grandfather told us it was hell on earth. Script? Wish it was better.
Thought by many to be but 14-years-of-age, I joined the USMC the same year this was released. And, being a product of that generational-thought-process, I feel exceptionally fortunate not to be a member of the later generations...especially not of this cancel-culture WOKE generation and their DEI mentality. I pray I never become so weak that I allow someone else to be able to control me by how I SURRENDER to them the ability to manipulate my emotions! I reiterate: ONLY "I" can surrender to someone else the ability to manipulate my emotions!! That would include ALL you balding, beer-gutted, no-fitting tee-shirted, know-better-than-anyone-else, anonymously-behind-your-keyboard AHs! The only reason I didn't tell you how I truly feel is the FACT that YT would have censored me! Of course, I make allowances for the appropriate 'age-related' guidelines. But at EIGHTY-ONE (81) years-of-age I have yet to see a book in print, view a movie shown, or a statue erected by another generation and/or culture that I think goes against what is important to my values to the extreme that I am offended so much so that it, whatever "IT" is, must be removed in order no one else may be offended. And, even though I do not approve of what they depict or portray, that would include, "Birth of a Nation" as well as "Gone With the Wind"! Be assured when I tell you that I may be an anonymous AH behind my keyboard, I don't have a beer-gut, my tee-shirts fit, and, even though it is naturally silver, I still have a head of hair to be envied! And, in 1986 while not yet 43 was carded at 42 years-of-age when ordering my lady friend of 40 a mixed drink and myself a Coke. Some 38+ years later I now am often mistaken to be in my 50s. All MEN were created EQUAL...then SOME joined the Marine Corps...
I am just glad they made a movie about Ira Hayes. My old boss was a Marine carrying a flame thrower on Tinian and got hit badly on Iwo Jima on the second day. He was a very honest man. This movie is a forerunner of Wind Talkers. I saw what alcohol did to Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico, and it was horribly sad. That was in 1974. God Bless our Natiive Americans. We sadly haven’t.
"Flags of Our Fathers" is a newer and much better and more historically accurate version. The guy they cast to play Hayes looked just like him.
Racism is a deplorable act 😢, God sees all 🙏
Curtis did good with this role but should hav cast a brown eyed man for role. How many full blood Indians do u see with blu eyes. This was a very good movie.
wow these guys were the best! Tony did a great job so did James and the rest of the cast. It makes you cry seeing all this stuff.
😮 SAD AND UNFORTUNATE LIFE 😞 R.I.P SIR AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🎉
This biopic tells the story of Ira Hayes (Tony Curtis), a Pima Native American who helped lift the American flag over Iwo Jima, Japan. After enlisting in the Marines, Hayes suffers prejudice among his fellow soldiers but finds a friend in Jim Sorenson (James Franciscus). Both are immortalized in the famous World War II photo, but Sorenson is killed shortly after it is taken. When he returns to America, Hayes is greeted as a hero but suffers from survivor's guilt that drives him to alcoholism.
Initial release: December 1961
it's a good thing that you have google
I hope Tony Curtis got an Oscar for this movie, he was extremely convincing. It was a very good movie but very sad. He was someone who just wanted to do good.
Unless I saw this movie when it was first released I could not have seen it until the following year, 1962. I joined the USMC in August, 1961 the same year it was released. And unlike today where graduating Marines go on leave for 10 days, there was NO liberty nor any type breaks for SIXTEEN (16) weeks in the proverbial "Old Corps"! I did get leave once I checked in with my first permanent duty station at Camp Lejeune, but only AFTER it was determined there were no senior Marines wanting leave at the time. My, my...how things have changed...
Have A Nice Day...Molon Labe...Semper Fi
Remarkable bable! and still no-one knows, if you saw the firm?
@@captainbart
"...Remarkable bable! and still no-one knows, if you saw the firm?..." that would depend upon which 'firm' you reference. But being one who never had much respect for officers, I would never let a Colonel upset me when I was young. And, me at 81-years-of-age, a mere captain hasn't a chance. Go to your dressing room and put some wax on your bald head right after you change that damned tee-shirt that shows your beer gut!! I know your type.
Molon Labe...Semper Fi
@@captainbart
When I referenced the 'Old Corps', I meant those that still were using the M1 Garand and BAR, wore what was known as USMC Battle Jackets, when there still were E3 Corporals and E4 Sergeants. Oh, you REALLY didn't know that there truly was a time those existed? You COULD learn something new EVERY day!!
Three years after the release of this picture, Jonny Cash released The Ballad of Ira Hayes. Still makes me cry.
God bless the Greatest Generation, especially the soldiers. Whether army, marines, navy, coast guard, air force, or merchant marine, they were all soldiers.
They protected our mothers and fathers when they were children, so tt the following generations could B born, and live in freedom.
That is why they R called the Greatest Generation.❤😊
I think Hayes would have survived if the powers that be had not tried to make a hero out of him and nobody knew who he was. For many people, anonymity is priceless.
Lots of Native Americans distinguished themselves in WW2 and beyond. Excellent warriors.
The Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, DC is very impressive.
If it weren't for programs, and AA, and family and shrinks, and a more tolerant society, I'd never have gotten off the bottle. It's everyone and every single day, yes one at a time, that makes a man sober.
Back then especially if someone's got PTSD, long before that diagnosis was recognized, there was very little hope a person could cope. And that bottle just gets stronger and meaner and keeps calling.
messed up it didn't show him going through marine para training oh well none of the para marines got to jump into combat anyway , the para's just went island hopping with the rest of the grunts of the corps , still an ok movie for its time , on a side note curtis served in the us navy in the Pacific
Just one criticism .. PFC Ira Hayes went through "jump school' and earned his US Jump Wings to be a Paramarine. The uniform does not show US Jump Wings. Other than that, Semper Fi.
you gotta know that the para'marines never got to jump into combat they were used as straight leg grunts but cpl hayes was a bad
a%$ and earned his place in history books of the Corps semper fi
81/85 = mos 03/11 and left mos 03/21
Tony Curtis did this great warmovie for almost nothing.
tony should have gotten an oscar for this
Great movie.
bit of a spoiler alert....Talk about double whammy...as a native american faced shocking racism, then fought in what I believe to america's most horrific WW2 battle, get thru that with severe PTSD and survivor guilt..just cannot imagine what these young guys sacrificed to live in a so called democracy
I watched
No native American actors right and not good but to get attention to this small film about a great piece of our history a star of status needed. The thought process may be off but I think it got the job done . Sad it had to be that wa Very!
I liked Chuck Connors as Geronimo, etc. Times have changed. Just kidding about Chuck.
Come on, it's 1961. Just enjoy the movie.
painfull.
best tony acting ever
100. Commercial breaks 😮
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I agree. I am pretty sure you have seen Wind Talkers about the Navajo code talkers in WWII. Without them we didn’t have a secure communication. I don’t know where you are from, I’m in central coast California. Wife’s uncle was a survivor of the Bataan death march in the Philippines in WWII. He was in a coal mine in Nagasaki working as slave labor when the Bomb hit in Japan. The second one. Hope you enjoy this rambling. But all true.
This could have been such a better movie.
Yes, if it had the 100-200 Million Dollar budget of these days. By 1961, the movie studios were self destructing. I’m just glad someone made it.
@@BigStack-vg6ku Needed to be grittier. More looks at what it was like landing and fighting at Iwo Jima. Grandfather told us it was hell on earth. Script? Wish it was better.
Your fucked in The head it was a spectacular acting job by Curtis
The only way Tony Curtis doesn’t suck in every film is by not being in it.
you sound so lame are you so jealous
of an actor
Hayes knew.
It's all b.s., total and utter b.s.
RIP.
1949 The Lone Ranger and Tonto! Jay Silver Heels was a Star.
So no native American actors?
That’s what the System was in 1961. Glad we have moved on from that. I liked Chuck Connors as Geronimo. Jk.
Come on, it's 1961. Just enjoy the movie.
Story of Indian Man and his battle with addiction 🥃
Thought by many to be but 14-years-of-age, I joined the USMC the same year this was released. And, being a product of that generational-thought-process, I feel exceptionally fortunate not to be a member of the later generations...especially not of this cancel-culture WOKE generation and their DEI mentality.
I pray I never become so weak that I allow someone else to be able to control me by how I SURRENDER to them the ability to manipulate my emotions! I reiterate: ONLY "I" can surrender to someone else the ability to manipulate my emotions!! That would include ALL you balding, beer-gutted, no-fitting tee-shirted, know-better-than-anyone-else, anonymously-behind-your-keyboard AHs! The only reason I didn't tell you how I truly feel is the FACT that YT would have censored me!
Of course, I make allowances for the appropriate 'age-related' guidelines. But at EIGHTY-ONE (81) years-of-age I have yet to see a book in print, view a movie shown, or a statue erected by another generation and/or culture that I think goes against what is important to my values to the extreme that I am offended so much so that it, whatever "IT" is, must be removed in order no one else may be offended. And, even though I do not approve of what they depict or portray, that would include, "Birth of a Nation" as well as "Gone With the Wind"!
Be assured when I tell you that I may be an anonymous AH behind my keyboard, I don't have a beer-gut, my tee-shirts fit, and, even though it is naturally silver, I still have a head of hair to be envied! And, in 1986 while not yet 43 was carded at 42 years-of-age when ordering my lady friend of 40 a mixed drink and myself a Coke. Some 38+ years later I now am often mistaken to be in my 50s.
All MEN were created EQUAL...then SOME joined the Marine Corps...
@@usmc3547 anyone who writes more than a paragraph in a comment section has one problem.
But I guess that you know that.