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Release Date: 1963 Cast: Leopoldo Salcedo, James MacArthur, Van Heflin, Rita Moreno
Categories: Movies, Indie, Action, Black-and-white, War film, Adventure Cry of Battle is a 1963 coming of age story and war film based on the 1951 novel Fortress in the Rice by Benjamin Appel who was a journalist and special assistant to the U.S. Commissioner for the Philippines from 1945-46. The film stars Van Heflin, James MacArthur, Rita Moreno, Leopoldo Salcedo and Sidney Clute. Set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the working title was To Be a Man.
Cry of Battle and War Is Hell were playing at the Texas Theater when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested there for the murder of President John F. Kennedy and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit.
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Cry of Battle is a 1963 coming of age story and war film based on the 1951 novel Fortress in the Rice by Benjamin Appel who was a journalist and special assistant to the U.S. Commissioner for the Philippines from 1945-46. The film stars Van Heflin, James MacArthur, Rita Moreno, Leopoldo Salcedo and Sidney Clute. Set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the working title was To Be a Man.
Cry of Battle and War Is Hell were playing at the Texas Theater when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested there for the murder of President John F. Kennedy and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit.
The film begins on 8 December 1941 with the Japanese attacking the Philippines. Dave McVey Jr., the son of a rich American who lives and owns many business interests in the Philippines is attempting to escape to safety when he is attacked by murderous bandits. He is rescued by Careo, a Filipino patriot who has put together a group of anti-Japanese Filipino guerrillas, though Dave has trouble differentiating between the two groups. Carero places Dave with an elderly Filpino and his granddaughter who teach Dave Tagalog language as he waits for news.
Careo returns again to tell Dave that his father has LESS
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