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638:(London), aware of the Allies’ very cosmopolitan forces in Burma, was displeased: “This long film has met with objections from American service men, and it is indeed a little extraordinary for it to imply that the Burma campaign was fought almost entirely without the aid of the British. There is one reference to the Fourteenth Army; during the course of the action it is rashly presumed by one of the party of American parachutists that a British outpost may be somewhere about, but this suggestion is promptly snubbed, and for the rest Mr. Flynn and the indomitable band he leads have it all their own way....the Japanese are shown as contemptibly inefficient fighters in their own kind of territory, and not all the parade of stubble chins and sweat-grimed faces can disguise the film’s lack of honesty in its account of a particular operation as well as of the general campaign.” 327:
ambushed the other unit. The remaining soldiers head out on foot and come across an enemy encampment where the captured troops have been held prisoner but discover, to their horror, that they have all been tortured and mutilated. Only Lt. Jacobs remains alive long enough to relate what happened and begs Nelson to kill him before he dies of his injuries. The surviving group is attacked by returning Japanese soldiers and forced to retreat into the jungle. The men must then cross the swamps in their attempt to make it back to safety through the enemy-occupied jungle.
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London 1945 premiere was remarkable: At a line in the script, (by an American, to the effect) "We should head north, I hear there might be a few Brits somewhere over there" - The entire (English) audience walked out in outrage. It got a second release in the United Kingdom in 1952, when it was shown
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has become the familiar material of a dozen such films....for the most part things happen just as they always have under the circumstances. Even the comedy exchanges, in most of which the cynical Gotham cabbie participates, have the ring of something you have heard before in exactly the same words.”
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called the film: "serious, hard and lacks any sort of female interest – the enemy are ruthless and clever and the soldiers still wisecrack, but they are professional, no-nonsense killers who follow orders and get along with each other (unless really stressed) i.e. there is no contrived in-fighting."
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The mission is an overwhelming success as the 36-man team quickly take out the station and its personnel. But when the airborne troops arrive at an old airstrip to be taken back to their base, they find the Japanese waiting for them at their rendezvous site. Captain Nelson makes the hard decision to
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thought the film overlong - “It is one thing for an actual mission to be that long, quite another for a movie based upon it, a truth that has not yet occurred to Hollywood” - and too familiar, despite the novel location: “The characters...are pretty much the same ones who have fought through other
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wrote: "This is without question one of the best war films yet made in Hollywood. There are no phony heroics by Errol Flynn or any of the other members of a uniformly excellent cast. These boys conduct themselves like real soldiers and even the newspaper correspondent is a credit to the craft. The
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Cole felt that Bessie did not deserve his credit on the film for story, saying he only contributed some pages, and felt he and MacDougall should have had it. However, he decided not to challenge the credit because Bessie was a friend. Cole was disappointed, however, when Bessie went on to earn an
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noted: "The film has considerable movement, particularly in the early reels and the tactics of the paratroopers are authentic in their painstaking detail. However, while the scripters have in the main achieved their purpose of heightening the action, there are scenes in the final reels that could
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wrote: "The picture impresses with its air of authenticity and the vivid realism that has gone into the telling of its story, and it possesses almost unremitting action crowded with the starkest of drama ... The primary fault of the film is that it is dragged out beyond all reason. There is much
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To reduce the likelihood of detection, the group splits into two smaller units and plans to meet up at a deserted Burmese village. But when Nelson arrives at the meeting place, there's no sign of the other group. Eventually, they find a wounded comrade, Hollis, who tells them that the Japanese
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wrote: "Very good! It ranks with the best of the war melodramas yet produced ... While the action holds one's interest all the way through, a cut of ten to fifteen minutes in the running time would not affect its dramatic punch."
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It is essential both for the enemy and the Allies to understand how it came about that the war was won ... nations should know and appreciate the efforts other countries than their own made to the common cause.
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Jerry Wald claimed he had the idea for doing a film set in Burma in Christmas 1943, feeling this particular theatre of the war would soon be active, and hoping the movie could be made and released before then.
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who wrote a "dozen or so" pages before being pulled off the project by Wald and assigned to something else. The job of writing the story and screenplay was given to Cole and a new writer for film,
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Warners have erred only in the film's excessive length. It runs approximately two hours and twenty minutes, or roughly thirty minutes more than appears to be absolutely necessary."
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Cole says Walsh had "contempt for writers" but that Wald made him stick to the script. Wald acknowledged that the plot bore a significant similarity to the 1940 film
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immediately after the raid. The plot of the film is almost a carbon copy of "Northwest Passage"; an MGM production which starred Spencer Tracy released in 1940.
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Fighting an almost constant rearguard action, Nelson's paratroopers also succeed as decoys leading Japanese troops away from the site of the
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Due to the availability, the film is notable for using authentic World War II American military material such as the aircraft and gliders.
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The film was announced in January 1944, with Wald and Walsh attached. Errol Flynn was already being discussed as the star.
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earned $ 2,117,000 domestically and $ 1,844,000 foreign. It was the studio's sixth most popular film of the year, after
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There were also objections to Errol Flynn playing the hero. He had stayed in Hollywood during the war, unlike actors
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with an accompanying apology. The movie was also banned in Singapore although it was seen in Burma and India.
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In his memoirs, Cole claims Wald was inspired by a book about an attempted British invasion of Burma called
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was withdrawn from release in the United Kingdom after it infuriated the British public. Prime Minister
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radar station that is detecting Allied aircraft flying into China. For their mission, they are assigned
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cinema military missions....The dramatic incident devised to break the monotony of the jungle trek in
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paratroopers led by Captain Nelson are dropped into Burma to locate and destroy a camouflaged
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of the huge and almost entirely British, Indian and Commonwealth conflict ('1 million men').
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was already well underway; this stopped Wald releasing the film in the same way
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repetitious material that could be cut out to the improvement of the film."
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The movie also contains a large amount of actual combat footage filmed by
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Carmody, Jay. “Burma Jungle Joins Japanese As Villain in Earle’s Film.”
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whose character is used to explain various procedures to the audience.
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cameramen in the China-Burma-India theatre as well as New Guinea.
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Even though it was based on the exploits of Merrill's Marauders,
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in 1942 (when US forces joined the British to invade
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The production began in April 1944, when the Allied
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Raoul Walsh
Alvah Bessie
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Lester Cole
Jerry Wald
Errol Flynn
James Brown
William Prince
Truman Bradley
James Wong Howe
George Amy
Franz Waxman
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Burma Campaign
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Errol Flynn
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