A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
Peter Masterson
- Sgt. William Maccone
- (as Pete Masterson)
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- TriviaMickey Rooney became ill with a fever during filming. During his hospital stay in Manila, his wife Carolyn Mitchell was killed by her lover in a murder-suicide.
- GoofsThe 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.
- Quotes
Soldier: How many men, your soldiers?
Sgt. Ernest Wartell: Including the European theater, I'd say about six million.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: THE PHILIPPINES OCTOBER 1944
- ConnectionsReferenced in Lusting Hours (1967)
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A nice but low budget appearing movie which is a fun watch
For standards of movie making decades later, the movie has its flaws but if you look past that, the plot is good and so is the acting. I enjoyed the nostalgia look at war movies where it was made close / somewhat close to when it happened and present day mannerisms, colloquial expressions and revisionist haven't taken too much of a overriding theme.
The actors in this movie are thin which to me reflects what a true soldier living on rations would look like, they don't use foul language in every sentence nor do they talk about sex. The plot shows Americans with dedication to duty, callous to the death around them and respect for each other except for the character, Pfc James Grenier, played by James Mitchum. As you watch the movie you go from disliking Grenier to rooting for him as all of the members of the mission are killed off.
The actors in this movie are thin which to me reflects what a true soldier living on rations would look like, they don't use foul language in every sentence nor do they talk about sex. The plot shows Americans with dedication to duty, callous to the death around them and respect for each other except for the character, Pfc James Grenier, played by James Mitchum. As you watch the movie you go from disliking Grenier to rooting for him as all of the members of the mission are killed off.
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- kmontz-1
- Jan 11, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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