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The film begins with the 1945 US Army Ranger raid at Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp. The film then flashes back to March 1942.
As the U.S. Army troopa under General MacArthur struggle to hold on at Bataan against the Japanese, Colonel Joseph Madden orders
one of his officers, Captain Andrés Bonifácio, to shape up. Bonifácio has been under a strain because his sweetheart Dalisay
Delgado is apparently collaborating with the Japanese, broadcasting propaganda over the radio. Later, Madden is picked to slip
through the lines to organize Filipinos to fight as guerrillas against the Japanese occupation. His commanding officer lets him
know that Delgado is actually using the propaganda broadcasts to secretly transmit valuable information to them, but he is ordered
to reveal that fact to no one, not even Bonifácio. Madden makes contact with one group of Filipino resistance fighters, but as they
set out on their first mission, they encounter middle-aged American school teacher Bertha Barnes. She and her students join the
guerrillas after the Japanese hang Buenaventura Bello, the principal of her school and a dear friend, for refusing to take down
the American flag.
Setting out on their first mission to destroy a Japanese gasoline dump, Madden and his men stumble upon the Bataan Death March and
realize that Bataan has fallen. Many of the Filipinos lose heart, so to boost their will to fight, Madden finds and engineers the
rescue of Captain Bonifácio from the Death March. Bonifácio happens to be the grandson of Andrés Bonifacio, a national hero. It
works. For their first mission, the guerrillas go to the Flilipino village and hang the Japanese officer who ordered the killing
of Bello. During the next year, Madden and his guerrillas attack Japanese outposts, supply depots, military airfields, and other
installations. Major Hasko, one of the Japanese commanders, attempts to appease the local population by staging a semi-independence
ceremony to reduce popular support for the Filipino resistance. Madden, Bonifácio, and the guerrillas attack the ceremony, where
Dalisay finally reveals her true alliance during her radio broadcast: She urges her people to rise up against the Japanese. Most
of the Japanese troops are killed in the raid, but a young Filipino boy named Maximo Cuenca (one of Barnes' students) is captured.
After being beaten, he agrees to lead the Japanese to Madden's hideout. However, as they near that spot, Maximo, sitting in the
front seat of a Japanese transport truck, suddenly grabs the steering wheel, sending it careening down a mountainside. He later
dies in the arms of Miss Barnes.
Colonel Madden is ordered out of the field, leaving Captain Bonifácio in command of the Filipino resistance. Several months later,
in October 1944, Bonifácio and his group travel to Leyte, where rumors are circulating of the impending American invasion to
liberate the Philippines. After arriving on Leyte, Bonifácio is reunited with Madden. They are given the mission of taking and
holding a small village to block Japanese reinforcements from repelling the impending landing of American forces. By trickery,
Madden, Bonifácio, and their men engage and defeat the Japanese garrison in a fierce pitched battle. Two enemy soldiers, however,
get away on a motorcycle and spread the alarm. Japanese tanks and soldiers attack. The defenders manage to knock out most of the
tanks, but are on the verge of being forced to retreat. Just when all seems lost, American reinforcements and tanks arrive and
turn the tide of battle. Another short montage follows, this time with several of the actual released Americans from the
Cabanatuan prison camp.
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Starring ... |
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo,
Philip Ahn, Lawrence Tierney, Leonard Strong, Paul Fix
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Director: Edward Dmytryk
Producer: Robert M. Fellows
Released - June 25, 1945
Length - 95 minutes
Music Composer: Roy Webb
Movie Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
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