****SPOILERS**** Tragic & gripping war drama involving three American GI's sent to scout out Japanese troops & gun positions on the Philippine island of Luzon to make way for a major invasion by the US military. Needing help from the local gorilla units the men run into difficulty with gorilla leader Paco, Conrad Maca, who doesn't trust them since both his wife and son was killed not by the Japanese but a US air strike on his village.
Slowly gaining important information on Japanese gun positions and troop movements the GI's Lt. Craig radio man Brunett & Sgt. Jearsy, Jimmie Rodgers Jack Nicholson & John Hackett, are confronted by a gang of crooks and desperadoes lead by the grinning and stuffing himself with bananas and pork chops Ramundo, Johnny Monteiro. It's Ramundo who demands that they hand over their radio so he can listen to American band and swing music while he munching down his food!
With the GI's not willing to give Ramundo their radio he in a fit of anger ends up destroying it and disappears into the jungle with his band of crooks leaving the Americans out in the cold and with no means of contacting their fellow GI's out at sea waiting to hear from them via radio. It's then when all hell breaks loose with Paco and his men together with the three GI's attack a local village where the Japanese are holding the children hostages to grab their radio and send out a message to the US invasion force about the critical information that they need.
****SPOILERS**** With almost all the GI's- except Sgt. Jersey- and Paco and his men killed in the fighting the message was indeed sent out by Brunett making the invasion of Luzon a smashing success. We see at the end of the movie stock footage of fighting all across the South Pacific that in most if not all cases had nothing to do with the story were seeing on the screen. But it does it's job in showing us the horrors of war in the modern world. We also get to see that the sacrifices that the American & gorillas made weren't in vain either.
Slowly gaining important information on Japanese gun positions and troop movements the GI's Lt. Craig radio man Brunett & Sgt. Jearsy, Jimmie Rodgers Jack Nicholson & John Hackett, are confronted by a gang of crooks and desperadoes lead by the grinning and stuffing himself with bananas and pork chops Ramundo, Johnny Monteiro. It's Ramundo who demands that they hand over their radio so he can listen to American band and swing music while he munching down his food!
With the GI's not willing to give Ramundo their radio he in a fit of anger ends up destroying it and disappears into the jungle with his band of crooks leaving the Americans out in the cold and with no means of contacting their fellow GI's out at sea waiting to hear from them via radio. It's then when all hell breaks loose with Paco and his men together with the three GI's attack a local village where the Japanese are holding the children hostages to grab their radio and send out a message to the US invasion force about the critical information that they need.
****SPOILERS**** With almost all the GI's- except Sgt. Jersey- and Paco and his men killed in the fighting the message was indeed sent out by Brunett making the invasion of Luzon a smashing success. We see at the end of the movie stock footage of fighting all across the South Pacific that in most if not all cases had nothing to do with the story were seeing on the screen. But it does it's job in showing us the horrors of war in the modern world. We also get to see that the sacrifices that the American & gorillas made weren't in vain either.