The Outsider

Genre: biography

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Delbert Mann

Credits: Cast: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Bruce Bennett

Description: Ira Hamilton Hayes is shunned by fellow Marines or mocked as "Chief" by them except for one, Jim Sorenson. He is proclaimed a hero and recruited to help sell war bonds to the public. Hayes' alcoholism after he leaves the Marine Corps becomes a public scandal. He dies of exposure to the elements ten years after the Iwo Jima battle.

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