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We've Never Been Licked

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We've Never Been Licked	comment	A 1943 American World War II propaganda film directed by John Rawlins and starring Richard Quine.Brad Craig, an American living in the Philippines, enrolls at Texas A&M University, hoping to study agriculture so that he can apply that education to improving life in the Philippine Islands, which he calls home. The first two friends he meets at A&M are a pair of Japanese students, who turn out to be spies. He is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster, who somehow finds himself broadcasting from the back seat of a Japanese plane during the Battle of Midway. He wrests control of the plane at a key moment in the battle, and crashes it into the Japanese flagship to prevent it from launching planes to intercept a squadron of American planes led by one of his classmates from Texas A&M.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
We've Never Been Licked / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril - A rare double subversion. This being a wartime propaganda film involving the Pacific Campaign of World War II, the few Japanese characters who appear of course turn out to be spies.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
We've Never Been Licked / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture - The protagonist's motivation to enroll at Texas A&M University.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_599c74ea	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
We've Never Been Licked / int_599c74ea	comment	Zero-Approval Gambit - After being accused of being a spy, Brad defects to the Japanese with the intent of sabotaging their war effort from inside. For this to work, everybody had to think he was a traitor.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
We've Never Been Licked / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois - Almost. This being College Station, Texas, there are no rolling hills and cliffs where they practiced with horses, or even basements in homes for that matter. However, there are hills just west of town near Highway 47, and some of the older homes near campus had basements...however, the railroad scene was almost certainly filmed with stock footage.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
We've Never Been Licked / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice - Brad is riding in the back seat of a Japanese plane at Midway, to report on the battle as a Japanese propagandist. He seizes control of the plane and crashes into the flight deck of a Japanese carrier, wreaking havoc at a key moment of the battle.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
We've Never Been Licked / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business - The traditions of Texas A&M University, including letting the mascot dog First Lady Of Aggieland, Reveille, sleep in his bed because that was the bunk she decided to lay down on. Truth in Television in large part.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
We've Never Been Licked / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector - Brad, which leads to...
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We've Never Been Licked / int_c10d1dcb	type	California Doubling
We've Never Been Licked / int_c10d1dcb	comment	California Doubling - Surprisingly averted. It was shot in College Station, Texas. However, so much the university has changed that it's difficult to identify where exactly films were shot.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_c2c28e90	type	Tokyo Rose
We've Never Been Licked / int_c2c28e90	comment	Tokyo Rose - Brad is suspected of being a spy because of his association with the Japanese students, and ends up joining their spy ring, hoping to sabotage it from inside. Finally, he ends up as a Tokyo Rose-style Japanese propaganda broadcaster.
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We've Never Been Licked / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
We've Never Been Licked / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death - Brad
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We've Never Been Licked / int_f5c6409a	type	Military Academy
We've Never Been Licked / int_f5c6409a	comment	Military Academy / Military School - Texas A&M University, which at the time required all male students (the only female students allowed were family members of the faculty) to join the Corps of Cadets, an officer training program.
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