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Release Date: 1960

Cast: John Meillon, Richard Todd, David McCallum, Laurence Harvey, Ronald Fraser

Categories: Movies, War Film, Drama Film

The Long and the Short and the Tall is a 1961 film directed by Leslie Norman and stars Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, David McCallum, John Meillon, John Rees, Ronald Fraser and Kenji Takaki. The film takes place in a Burmese jungle in 1942 during the World War II Malayan Campaign. Laurence Harvey took the role originally taken by Peter O'Toole in the stage production as it was thought that he had more box office drawing power. The name comes from the second line of the popular World War II song "Bless 'Em All." In the U.S. the film was retitled Jungle Fighters and released... MORE

The Long and the Short and the Tall is a 1961 film directed by Leslie Norman and stars Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, David McCallum, John Meillon, John Rees, Ronald Fraser and Kenji Takaki. The film takes place in a Burmese jungle in 1942 during the World War II Malayan Campaign. Laurence Harvey took the role originally taken by Peter O'Toole in the stage production as it was thought that he had more box office drawing power. The name comes from the second line of the popular World War II song "Bless 'Em All." In the U.S. the film was retitled Jungle Fighters and released through Continental Film Distributors. During the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942, a seven-strong British sonic warfare patrol beds down in a dilapidated store-hut in the Burmese jungle. Tension rises as Private Sam Whitaker fails to repair the malfunctioning radio, the rest of the men cannot guess whether or when to move on. The plot thickens when a lone Japanese scout stumbles across the hut and his fate becomes the squad's second dilemma. Sergeant Mitchem, the man in command of the Patrol wants to take the prisoner back to headquarters for interrogation but as they try to decide his fate, LESS