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Back to Bataan (1945)

PG-13 05/30/1945 (US) Drama, Action, War 1h 35m

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Overview

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Edward Dmytryk

Director
Ben Barzman

Screenplay
Richard H. Landau

Screenplay
Æneas MacKenzie

Story
William Gordon

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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
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on 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 of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden (John Wayne) stays behind to lead the local guerrilla resistance against the Japanese army. With that synopsis it isn't hard to figure... read the rest.

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