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Bataan (1943)
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter (Lee Bowman), Sgt. Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and a diverse group of American soldiers are chosen to blow up a bridge on the Bataan peninsula and keep the Japanese from rebuilding it.
16 April 1917, San Francisco, California, USA
16 August 1903, Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Philippines
28 December 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
10 January 1911, Manila, Philippines
7 November 1909, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
2 March 1917, Santiago, Cuba
25 April 1913, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 15, 1898 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
4 July 1902, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
7 March 1909, San Francisco, California, USA
March 11, 1909 in Los Angeles, California, USA
1 January 1889, Dublin, Ireland
April 16, 1896 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
27 February 1915, Cheney, Washington, USA
13 October 1918, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
11 July 1892, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
5 August 1911, Filley, Nebraska, USA
11 August 1902, San Francisco, California, USA
June 02, 2006
An exciting flagwaving big box office Alamo-esque suicide mission World War II film.
October 25, 2004
MGM and the War Department teamed for this flag waving combat drama that influenced a number of future war movies.
October 30, 2006
Since it was basically a tale of defeat, the nervous producers emphasized heroism, but later, under criticism of fabricating the facts with mechanically packed incidents, MGM was forced to acknowledge "some melodramatic flaws and technical mistakes."