American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Fritz Lang

Writers:

Lamar Trotti (screenplay)
Ira Wolfert (novel)

Release Date:

8 November 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | War

Tagline:

One of the great adventures to come out of the Pacific!

Plot:

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.

Plot Keywords:

1942 | Philippines | General | American Soldier | Douglas Macarthur

Cast

Tyrone Power	...	Ensign Chuck Palmer
Micheline Presle	...	Jeanne Martinez (as Micheline Prelle)
Tom Ewell	...	Jim Mitchell
Robert Patten	...	Lovejoy (as Bob Patten)
Tommy Cook	...	Miguel
Juan Torena	...	Juan Martinez
Jack Elam	...	The Speaker
Robert Barrat	...	Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Also Known As:

I Shall Return (UK)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:0 (f) (re-rating) | West Germany:16 (nf) (original rating) | UK:U | West Germany:o.Al. (re-rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #14542)

Filming Locations:

Philippines

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The bamboo dance in the movie is known as the Tinikling dance. It involves two people hitting bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance. It is a Philippine traditional national dance that is still performed to this day at Fiesta.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When setting the sail early in the movie, Power's character refers to a halyard as a sheet. No real sailor would make such an error.

Movie Connections:

Edited into All This and World War II (1976)

Soundtrack:

That Old Feeling

American G.I.s help against invasion of the Philippines.

This movie had a rush release just weeks before American soldiers get serious in Korea. A very good feel from this war drama about American fighters stranded in the Philippine Islands waiting for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return. Guerrilla warfare helps sustain against the invading Japanese in 1942. Some very nice scenery and interesting war action. Top direction from Fritz Lang and potent acting from Tyrone Power and Tom Ewell.