The Naked and the Dead

…his most-daunting literary source with The Naked and the Dead (1958), adapted from Norman Mailer’s novel about a platoon of American soldiers trying to capture a Pacific island during World War II.

…parts in films such as The Naked and the Dead (1958), Gidget (1959), and Underworld U.S.A (1961), but his breakout film role was as Lieut. John F. Kennedy in the movie PT 109 (1963), about the president’s service in World War II aboard a torpedo boat sunk by the Japanese.…