An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
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John Wayne
Colonel Joseph Madden
Beulah Bondi
Bertha Barnes
Anthony Quinn
Captain Andres Bonifacio
Fely Franquelli
Dalisay Delgado
Richard Loo
Maj. Hasko
Philip Ahn
Col. Coroki
Alex Havier
Sgt. Bernessa
'Ducky' Louie
Maximo Cuenca
Lawrence Tierney
Lt. Cmdr. Waite
Leonard Strong
Gen. Homma
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Screenplay
Ben Barzman
Tagline
"SEE! Battle of Bataan! March of Death! Guerilla Raids! Fierce bolo fighters in action!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
John Chard
January 6, 2016
I send out 100 men, they find nothing. I send out ten men, they don't come back. Is it churlish to complain about overt flag waving in war movies? Or to decry propaganda prose in the same? Back to Bataan is guilty as charged, yet such is the composition of Edward Dmytryk's film, and its focus on a part of the war we rarely have seen on film, it matters not. We are in 1942, and after the fall...
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