I don’t know what Lee Marvin’s politics were. I do know that his tough-guy image wasn’t just an image, and that in his youth he was expelled from several schools for bad behavior. And as a Marine sniper, he was wounded at Saipan and earned a Purple Heart when most of his platoon was wiped out. It may have been a blessing in disguise, because he was sent home before the battle of Iwo Jima.