Back to Bataan (1945)
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IMDb Rating:
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6.7/10

Country:United States, 95 minutes

Spoken languages:English, Japanese, Tagalog (Filipino)

Genres:War

Director(s):Edward Dmytryk

Writer(s):Frank S. Nugent

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 30

Storyline:
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 ...

Cast:
John Wayne (as Col. Joseph Madden), Anthony Quinn (as Capt. Andrés Bonifácio), Beulah Bondi (as Bertha Barnes), Lawrence Tierney (as Lt. Cmdr. Waite), Paul Fix (as Bindle Jackson)

Medium: Original DVD,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3