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17/02/1945 War, Adventure, Drama, Action 2h 22m
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An American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost

Overview

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

  1. Raoul Walsh

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Errol Flynn

    Capt. Nelson

  2. Henry Hull

    Mark Williams

  3. George Tobias

    Cpl. Gabby Gordon

  4. Anthony Caruso

    Miggleori

  5. James Brown

    SSgt. Treacy

  6. Richard Erdman

    Pvt. Nebraska Hooper

  7. Joel Allen

    Cpl. Brophy - Radioman

  8. John Alvin

    Hogan

  9. William Hudson

    Fred Hollis

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-08-28
Come on, I'd follow that man down the barrel of a cannon.

Errol Flynn stars as Major Nelson, who along with 50 other commandos parachute into Burma to destroy a Japanese radar station. The mission is a success but while waiting to be air lifted to safety they come under attack from the Japanese and are forced to trek thru the jungle, simultaneously fighting the terrain just as much as the enemy.

There were two magnificently directed war films made in 1945, one was John Ford's supreme John Wayne vehicle, They Were Expendable, the other is this much unheralded Raoul Walsh classic. High on...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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