Operation Pacific
1951
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Back to Bataan: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli. In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
- (4.4K)
- Drama, War
- Edward Dmytryk
- 1945-05-31
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Season 1 95%. ... 2023 Full Review Harold V. Cohen Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Back to Bataan is a bang-up show and a bitter . memory, ...
- (42)
- John Wayne
- Edward Dmytryk
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Back to Bataan is a 1945 American black-and-white World War II war film drama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk, that stars John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. The film depicts events (some fictionalized and some actual) that took place after the Battle of Bataan (1941–42) on the island of Luzon in the ...
The picture's strength is its fast action. Full Review | Feb 1, 2023. Harold V. Cohen Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Back to Bataan is a bang-up show and a bitter . memory, its hair-raising thrills ...
The film "Back to Battan" starts and ends with the January 30, 1945 US/Filipino raid on the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese prison camp on Luzon Island as the allied troops rout the Japanese defenders, that number some 2,000 to 5,000 men, at the cost of only 4 killed and 21 wounded with not even a single US/Filipino POW being lost in the battle.
Back to Bataan. As John Wayne refused to use a stunt-double in the movie, director Edward Dmytryk and screenwriter Ben Barzman wrote scenes for Wayne with dangerous stunts so that Wayne would want to use a stuntman. Not even this deterred Wayne who still did the stunts. As the script for the movie was being written, the battle for Bataan was ...
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Dec 6, 2007 · Back to Bataan is a great old war film, occcasionaly bogged down by some over-the-top pro American messages. Do not get me wrong, I am a huge patriot, but subtle this movie ain't. Fewer lectures disguised as plot exposition would have promoted this to a four star movie. War hero Wayne. “We don’t want freedom as a gift.
