Ron Tucker, a former Marine, now heads film fest with wife
"I was a movieholic," admitted Tucker, whose first deployment was under the tactical, speed-infused command of future Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. Col. Al Gray, operating from the amphibious warship, USS Inchon. "Growing up in Woodruff, South Carolina, it was Saturday matinees with Jeff Chandler in Merrill's Marauders, Van Heflin in Battle Cry, John Wayne in Flying Leathernecks and Jack Webb in The D.I.," he said. After 22 years in the Corps that included a climb from private to the NCO ranks and, finally, the "railroad tracks" he earned as a brand new captain, the Desert Storm vet ret...