Cry of Battle (1963)

Directed by

Irving Lerner

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man joins the resistance against Japanese occupation in the Philippines. He is forced to confront danger and violence while growing up amid the chaos of war.

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What happens

Cry of Battle is a 1963 American coming-of-age action war film based on the 1951 novel Fortress in the Rice by Benjamin Appel, who was a journalist and special assistant to the U.S. commissioner for the Philippines from 1945–46. The film stars Van Heflin, James MacArthur, Rita Moreno and Leopoldo Salcedo. Set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the working title was To Be a Man. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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