PT 109 / On-Location Recorded Interviews

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Release Date: 1963

Label: Warner Brothers Pictures Inc.

While 'PT 109' was being filmed around Little Palm Island, in Key West, Florida, celebrity interviewer Sam Guyson talked to several members of the cast, as well as the Producer, Director and Cinematographer on the film. This promo only advance record was sent to radio sometime in the spring of 1963, in advance of the June 1963 theatrical release.

The film is a dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's WWII military experiences during which he commanded a PT boat that sank after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer while on patrol in the South Pacific on a very dark night. He and the other survivors, some of whom were wounded, made their way to a nearby island where they had to survive on meager rations and avoid capture by enemy forces till they could find a way to signal the Navy for rescue.