The best Leon Ames’s war movies

Leon Ames

Leon Ames

20/01/1902- 12/10/1993
We present our ranking of the best Leon Ames’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Leon Ames.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 26/01/1970
  • Character: Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh
7/10
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
7.2/10
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

Battleground

Battleground
7.4/10
The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/12/1945
  • Character: Major James Morton
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Thunder Afloat

Thunder Afloat
6.3/10
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Sabre Jet

Sabre Jet
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/09/1953
  • Character: Lt. Col. Eckert
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.

Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 24/10/1939
  • Character: Adjutant
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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