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Writers:
Marve Feinberg (writer)
Ib Melchior (writer)
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Release Date:
13 June 1966 (Sweden) more
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Their top secret mission paved the way for the man who said "I Shall Return!".
Plot:
A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas. | add synopsis
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The Music and Imagery saved this otherwise pedestrian WWII epic more (12 total)

Cast

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Hugh O'Brian ... 1st Sgt. Steve Corey

Mickey Rooney ... Gunnery Sgt. Ernest Wartell
James Mitchum ... Pfc. James Grenier
Peter Masterson ... Platoon Sgt. William Maccone
Harry Lauter ... Cpl. Alvin Ross
Gregg Amsterdam ... Cpl. Stanley Parrish
Jim Anauo ... Pfc. Henry Reynolds
Tony Smith ... Pvt. George George
Clem Stadler ... Capt. Alonzo Davis
Amado Abello ... Manuel Amado
Juris Sulit ... Midori
Max Quismundo ... Max
Bruno Punzalan ... Ramon
Tisa Chang ... Miyazaki
Buff Fernandez ... Lt. Tokuzo
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Runtime:
109 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Anachronisms: The camouflage uniforms worn by the American raiders are not WWII military camouflage uniforms. They are wearing commercial duck hunter suits that were sold in the USA after World War II. They are based on wartime USMC camouflage uniforms and bear a passing resemblance. more

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The Music and Imagery saved this otherwise pedestrian WWII epic, 14 September 2007
Author: ddc300 from United States

Just picked up this DVD for a song. Yes, the acting is wooden, the characters are archetypes of classic WWII yarns, and the blood was obviously red paint. But this film does include two nice touches: the cinematography, and the music score. I thought I recognized the music: Richard LaSalle was the composer for "Ambush Bay" and many of his music cues from this film turned up as incidental music on most of producer Irwin Allen's TV projects throughout the 1970's. The "Land of the Giants" series used a lot of his music in the later episodes.

Oddly, in a peculiar coincidence, "Ambush Bay" co-script writer Ib Melchoir was a noted sci-fi film scribe, having penned "The Time Travelers" (1966), and is credited with creating the idea for producer Irwin Allen's "Lost In Space" (for which he was not given credit). And the tie-in is that composer LaSalle contributed scores to both "Time Travelers" and "Lost in Space" (sometimes fact IS stranger than fiction).

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