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31 May 1945 (USA)
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The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted...
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Guerrilla
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Philippines
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Japan
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Independence
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Get those Japs!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| John Wayne | ... | Col. Joseph Madden | |
| Anthony Quinn | ... | Capt. Andrés Bonifácio | |
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Bertha Barnes | |
| Fely Franquelli | ... | Dalisay Delgado | |
| Richard Loo | ... | Maj. Hasko | |
| Philip Ahn | ... | Col. Coroki | |
| Alex Havier | ... | Sgt. Bernessa (as J. Alex Havier) | |
| 'Ducky' Louie | ... | Maximo Cuenca | |
| Lawrence Tierney | ... | Lt. Cmdr. Waite | |
| Leonard Strong | ... | Gen. Homma | |
| Paul Fix | ... | Bindle Jackson | |
| Abner Biberman | ... | Japanese Captain | |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | ... | Señor Buenaventura J. Bello |
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The Invisible Army
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95 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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West Germany:12 (f) |
USA:Approved (certificate #10576) |
UK:PG |
Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1954) |
Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1954) |
Sweden:15
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As the script for the movie was being written, the battle for Bataan was still being fought. The screenwriters were constantly updating the script based on the latest news from the front.
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Revealing mistakes: Plugs can be seen in the barrels of the Thompson sub-machine guns which make them fire fully automatically with blank rounds.
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Quotes:
Maximo Cuenca:
[a poor student dying in his teacher's arms after heroic action] Miss Barnes, I'm sorry I never learned how to spell "liberty".
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Bertha Barnes: [tearfully] No one ever learned it so well.
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Bertha Barnes: [tearfully] No one ever learned it so well.
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Featured in The John Wayne Anthology (1991) (TV)
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Realistic based movie which effecively encapsulates the brutality of the Japanese during that time in the Philippines.The Philippines had basic commonality with the U.S. in basic philosophies like CHRISTIANITY(Theology) and DEMOCRACY(Politics) and this was the reason why the Japanese miss-calculated when they thought they could win the Filipinos over to their side with the propaganda they spewed forth regarding the Japanese/Filipino Asian bond.It was a very big mess and the Japanese just could not figure it out.The Filipinos just despised all the Japanese stood for no matter how noble their cause was supposed to be.This movie delivers and is ahead of it's time with gritty battle scenes and not over doing the Hollywood compromise bit.The main flaw here was the casting of Quinn as a Filipino.I am sure even at that time there were a lot of able Filipino studs who could hadle the role of Andres Bonifacio's grandson.A movie like this which emphasizes Filipino freedom and equality should have at least casted Filipino's on equal terms.Quinn did a very good job of it though,amazingly capturing the mannerisms of a typical modern Spanish Filipino well enough to pull it off.....