Back to Bataan (1945)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 68 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A U.S. colonel leads Filipino resistance fighters after the American surrender at Bataan. They carry out guerrilla missions against the Japanese occupation forces.

patrioticsomberstirringgrittyearnesttenseheroic

What happens

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 Philippines. The working title of the film was The Invisible Army. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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