American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Director:Fritz Lang |
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Ensign Chuck Palmer
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| Micheline Presle | ... |
Jeanne Martinez
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Tom Ewell | ... |
Jim Mitchell
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Robert Patten | ... |
Lovejoy
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Tommy Cook | ... |
Miguel
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Juan Torena | ... |
Juan Martinez
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| Jack Elam | ... |
The Speaker
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In the spring of 1942, following the blockade-run that took General Douglas MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines to the safety of Australia, the survivors of a bombed-and-sunk PT Boat make their way to shore. The skipper tells his men they have top priority passes if they can make their way to Del Monte airfield 200 miles away, and advises them to split up into pairs. Ensign Chuck Palmer and crewman Jim Mitchell finally reach Tacloban on the island of Leyte. In an American mission school, Palmer meets Jeanne Martinez, who is urgently trying to see the officer in charge with a request for help for a relative, and he also learns that the Japanese have captured the airfield. Palmer tries to make Australia by a boat that sinks in a tropical storm and has to swim for shore. All through 1942, Palmer and the other survivors dodge enemy patrols while living off of the land. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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Music by Harry Warren
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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. See more »Goofs
Plot holes: Early in the film, Ensign Palmer is told by Juan Martinez that there are no boats with engines available and so the crew buy a sailing boat to try and reach Australia. Later in the film however they agree to try and get a message through to the American General and in return he will arrange for them to be sent to Australia. However when trying to reach him, they steal a Japanese boat which has an engine but instead of using this to go DIRECTLY to Australia they carry on trying to reach the General for him to help them get there. See more »Soundtracks
"I Had the Craziest Dream"(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
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