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30/05/1945 War, Drama 1h 35m
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SEE! Battle of Bataan! March of Death! Guerilla Raids! Fierce bolo fighters in action!

Overview

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

  1. Edward Dmytryk

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Wayne

    Colonel Joseph Madden

  2. Beulah Bondi

    Bertha Barnes

  3. Anthony Quinn

    Captain Andres Bonifacio

  4. Fely Franquelli

    Dalisay Delgado

  5. Richard Loo

    Maj. Hasko

  6. Philip Ahn

    Col. Coroki

  7. Alex Havier

    Sgt. Bernessa

  8. 'Ducky' Louie

    Maximo Cuenca

  9. Lawrence Tierney

    Lt. Cmdr. Waite

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2016-01-06
I send out 100 men, they find nothing. I send out ten men, they don't come back.

Is it churlish to complain about overt flag waving in war movies? Or to decry propaganda prose in the same? Back to Bataan is guilty as charged, yet such is the composition of Edward Dmytryk's film, and its focus on a part of the war we rarely have seen on film, it matters not.

We are in 1942, and after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden (John Wayne) stays behind to lead the local guerrilla resistance against the Japanese army. With that synopsis it isn't hard to figure...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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