The best John Alvin’s war movies

John Alvin

John Alvin

24/10/1917- 27/02/2009
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Alvin’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about John Alvin.

Objective, Burma!

Objective, Burma!
7.3/10
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo
7.1/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 31/12/1943
  • Character: Sound Man
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

The Fighting Sullivans

The Fighting Sullivans
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 03/02/1944
  • Character: Madison Abel 'Matt' Sullivan
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.

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