MacArthur
Where the legend ends and the man begins.
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7/15/1977Runtime
130 minsOverview
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$9,000,000Revenue
$16,300,000Homepage
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A measured biographical portrait of Douglas MacArthur's military career and personal reckoning, tracing his rise to legendary status and fall from grace through the prism of an aging general reflecting on his past. The film presents a complex figure at odds with authority, exploring the distance between public myth and private man.
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Gregory Peck
Douglas MacArthur
Ivan Bonar
Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland
Ward Costello
Gen. George C. Marshall
Nicolas Coster
Colonel Sidney Huff
Marj Dusay
Jean MacArthur
Ed Flanders
President Harry S. Truman
Warde Donovan
General Shepherd
Branscombe Richmond
Korean Soldier
Jerry Holland
Aide
Art Fleming
The Secretary
Russell Johnson
Admiral King
Sandy Kenyon
General Wainwright
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