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Objective, Burma! (1945) 7.3
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy. Director:Raoul Walsh |
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Capt. Nelson
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SSgt. Treacy
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Lt. Sid Jacobs
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Cpl. Gabby Gordon
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Mark Williams
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Col. J. Carter
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Lt. Barker
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A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle. Written by John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
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Country:
USARelease Date:
17 February 1945 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Objective Burma See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [Chuckling] I wonder what happened to those two Zulus I had a date with last week.
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There are no female roles in this movie. See more »Goofs
In all aerial scenes, the US transports used are C47's. In a takeoff scene about one third into the film, the transports shown are C46's. See more »Quotes
Pvt. Nebraska Hooper: What are you thinkin' about, Gabby?Cpl. Gabby Gordon: [Chuckling] I wonder what happened to those two Zulus I had a date with last week.
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It's understandable that there were sensitivities in the UK over this film when released. After all the British played a major role in removing the Japanese from Burma, it was still fresh in the memory and this film largely overlooks the British effort.
We have to remember though that this is a film, not a documentary, and it was made during the war for a US audience. It is not meant to be completely factually accurate and bearing this in mind it is a very good film.
I have never been an Errol Flynn fan and always think of him as just a swashbuckling pirate in tights, but he is very good here displaying a sensitive side, the difficulty of command and appropriate humour. There is also a good performance from the underrated James Brown (who was also good in films such as Air Force and the Sands of Iwo Jima).
The story displays the usual war messages, it's futility, devotion to colleagues and duty etc. It also shows the jungle as almost a big an enemy as the Japanese. I'm lucky not to have lived through those difficult times but come from a region of the UK where a large number of troops were based in Burma, and several veterans of the campaign have told me they feared the jungle as much as the Japanese.
I am a big fan of WW2 films and certainly place this amongst my top 10.