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President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his White House desk: a coconut encased in plastic. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109. Academy Award winner* Cliff Robertson stars in this stirring saga of Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a PT boat in the Solomon Islands. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing a badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island. There seemed little hope of rescue from the Japanese-dominated area...until a strategy involving a coconut emerged. The triumphant outcome was unbelievable - and all true!
Original Release
06/19/1963
US Release
06/19/1963
Cast
Name | Character |
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Cliff Robertson | Lt. (J.G.) John F. Kennedy / Lt. John F, Kennedy |
Ty Hardin | Ensign Leonard J. Thom |
James Gregory | Commander C.R. Ritchie |
Robert Culp | Ensign George 'Barney' Ross |
Grant Williams | Lt. Alvin Cluster |
Lew Gallo | Yeoman Rogers |
Errol John | Benjamin Kevu |
Michael Pate | Lt. Reginald Evans |
Robert Blake | Charles 'Bucky' Harris |
William Douglas | Gerard Zinser / Gerald Zinser |
Directors
Writers
Richard L. Breen, Howard Sheehan, Vincent X. Flaherty, Robert J. Donovan
Cast
Name | Character |
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Cliff Robertson | Lt. (J.G.) John F. Kennedy / Lt. John F, Kennedy |
Ty Hardin | Ensign Leonard J. Thom |
James Gregory | Commander C.R. Ritchie |
Robert Culp | Ensign George 'Barney' Ross |
Grant Williams | Lt. Alvin Cluster |
Lew Gallo | Yeoman Rogers |
Errol John | Benjamin Kevu |
Michael Pate | Lt. Reginald Evans |
Robert Blake | Charles 'Bucky' Harris |
William Douglas | Gerard Zinser / Gerald Zinser |
Biff Elliot | Edgar E. Mauer |
Norman Fell | Edmund Drewitch |
Sam Gilman | Raymond Starkey |
Clyde Howdy | Leon Drawdy |
Buzz Martin | Mate Maurice Kowal / Maurice Kowal |
James McCallion | Patrick McMahon / Pat McMahon |
Joseph Gallison | Harold Marney / Harold Mamey |
Sam Reese | Andrew Kirksey |
Glenn Sipes | William Johnson |
John Ward | John Maguire |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bryan Foy | Producer |
Jack L. Warner | Producer |