Bataan (1943)

Directed by

Tay Garnett

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of American soldiers are ordered to blow up a bridge to slow the Japanese advance during the battle for the Bataan Peninsula. The story follows these men as they face the harsh realities of war and their own inevitable fate.

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What happens

Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Irving Starr (with Dore Schary as executive producer), and directed by Tay Garnett, that stars Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, Lee Bowman, Desi Arnaz and Robert Walker. It follows the fates of a group of men charged with destroying a bridge during the doomed defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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