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The Naked and the Dead is a 1958 Technicolor widescreen film based on Norman Mailer's 1948 World War II novel The Naked and the Dead.  Directed by Raoul Walsh, screenplay by the Sanders brothers and filmed in Panama. The movie adds a strip tease and an action scene to the story in the novel.  It happens to be one of the last films produced by RKO before its closure, the film was released by Warner Bros. It was the last film that Raoul Walsh directed for Warner Bros as well.
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