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Release Date: 1945 Cast: "Ducky" Louie, Benson Fong, Richard Loo, Vladimir Sokoloff, Philip Ahn, Alex Havier, Harold Fong, Anthony Quinn, Leonard Strong, John Miljan, Paul Fix, Lawrence Tierney ...MORE
Cast: "Ducky" Louie, Benson Fong, Richard Loo, Vladimir Sokoloff, Philip Ahn, Alex Havier, Harold Fong, Anthony Quinn, Leonard Strong, John Miljan, Paul Fix, Lawrence Tierney, John Wayne, Abner Biberman, Fely Franquelli, Beulah Bondi ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Action, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, War film, Combat Films Back to Bataan (1945) is a World War II war film produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures. It depicts events (some fictionalized and some actual) that took place after the Battle of Bataan (1941 - 1942) on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The working title of the film was The Invisible Army.
The film begins with the then recent US Army Ranger raid at Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp. The film then flashes back to 1942.
As American forces under General MacArthur are forced to pull out of... MORE
Back to Bataan (1945) is a World War II war film produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures. It depicts events (some fictionalized and some actual) that took place after the Battle of Bataan (1941 - 1942) on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The working title of the film was The Invisible Army.
The film begins with the then recent US Army Ranger raid at Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp. The film then flashes back to 1942.
As American forces under General MacArthur are forced to pull out of Bataan, Colonel Joseph Madden (John Wayne) of the U.S. Army, stays behind to organize guerrilla fighters against the occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines. Madden teams up with Filipino resistance fighters to liberate POW's from Cabanatuan.
One of his officers, Captain Andrés Bonifácio (Anthony Quinn), carries a heavy burden. Not only does he have to live up to being the grandson of Andrés Bonifacio a national hero, but his former fiancée Dalisay Delgado (Fely Franquelli) is apparently collaborating with the Japanese, broadcasting propaganda over the radio. (In actuality, Ms. Delgado was also LESS
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