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Title: Back to Bataan
Runtime: 95 Min
Year: 1945
Genres: Drama - War
Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Alex Havier, 'Ducky' Louie, Lawrence Tierney, Leonard Strong, Paul Fix, Abner Biberman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erville Alderson, Spencer Chan, W.T. Chang, Robert Clarke, Roger Cole
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk

PLOT

The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack. Colonel Joseph Madden is among the escaping survivors who are ordered by general Douglas McArthur to organize a guerrilla. As he finds many native Filipinos inclined to resist the occupier's vision of returning to the South Asian fold under a paternalistic empire which doesn't hesitate to 'spank the unruly', but is mainly civilian, unprepared, inept in military matters, Madden appeals to the legendary anti-US freedom fighter Andres Bonifácio's homonymous grandson Captain Andrés Bonifácio, who is luckily rescued from a POW dead march, to inspire the resistance -once his own fighting spirit is rekindled- with him in a still very unsure war, retaliated by bloody, ten to one repression. When the Japanese realize the people side against them, they stage fake independence under imperial prince Ito, but are betrayed. While the tide of war turns against Japan all around the Pacific, the bitter fight intensifies further.


Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: (screenplay) Ben Barzman and Richard H. Landau - (original story) Æneas MacKenzie (as Aeneas Mac Kenzie) and William Gordon
IMDB Rating: 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61%
Parental Advisory Certification: West Germany:12 (f) / USA:Approved (certificate #10576) / UK:PG / Germany:12 (DVD rating) / Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1954) / Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1954) / Sweden:15
Awards: award year- Awards (Award)
- (WON)
- (NOMINATED)


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