Back to Bataan ratings (Movie, 1945)
Rank | 17,665 / 244,900 |
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Genres | Drama, War |
Total votes | 4,468 |
Average rating | 6.6 / 10 |
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 ...
Directors: Edward Dmytryk Writers: Ben Barzman, Richard H. Landau, Æneas MacKenzie History (tracking since March 7, 2020) Note: amount of total votes may decrease due to periodic removal of fraudulent ones. Related MoviesTotal votes: 35,198
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