It's been a quarter of a century since its release, yet the 2000 film Cast Away remains one of the most loved movies featuring actor Tom Hanks, who spends most of the movie alone. Hanks plays Chuck ...

In the film directed by Robert Zemeckis, Hanks plays FedEx exec Chuck Noland, who is the only survivor of a plane crash landing on a deserted island. Helen Hunt plays his girlfriend, Kelly. After the ...

Movie casting decisions rarely make the news. Hollywood trade papers breathlessly report the shooting schedules of every major (and minor) star, but the general public only knows the details when the ...

During the Vietnam War, William Broyles Jr. was deployed as an infantry platoon commander in the Marine Corps and visited a Navy hospital there full of severely injured troops. Peering through a ...