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Bataan

6.4/ 10

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1943

Release Year

114 min

Runtime

Action
Drama
War

Overview

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.

Keywords

world war ii
us army
philippines
suicide mission
bayonet
machine gun
philippine army
pacific theater
one by one
japanese army
bataan
battlefield trauma
bridge blowup
historical battle
snipers

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8.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

March 22, 2020

8
8/10

One of the 1940s best war movies. World War II and it's the Bataan peninsula. 13 members of the US armed forces, with Filipino volunteers, have been hastily assembled to blow up a bridge and delay Japanese attempts to rebuild it for as long as possible. As the Japanese close in from the surround

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