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Bataan

THE STORY OF A PATROL OF 13 HEROES

6.4(37)19431h 54m2

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.

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Released
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Language
English
  • world war ii
  • us army
  • philippines
  • suicide mission
  • bayonet
  • machine gun
  • philippine army
  • pacific theater
  • one by one
  • japanese army
  • bataan
  • battlefield trauma

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Behind the camera

Director

Tay Garnett

Produced in

United States of America

Gallery

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR3 Jun 1943
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU1 Jan 1970
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1625 Oct 1963

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Bataan was released on 3 June 1943.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    3/22/2020

    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 surrounding jungle, the men must also battle with their own wills to have any hope of survival. Lets get the complaints of ot…

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