A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
Peter Masterson
- Sgt. William Maccone
- (as Pete Masterson)
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Did you know
- TriviaMickey Rooney became ill with a fever during filming. During his hospital stay in Manila, his wife Carolyn Mitchell was killed by her lover in a murder-suicide.
- GoofsThe camouflage uniforms worn by the American raiders are not WWII military camouflage uniforms. They are wearing commercial duck hunter suits that were sold in the USA after World War II. They are based on wartime USMC camouflage uniforms and bear a passing resemblance.
- Quotes
Soldier: How many men, your soldiers?
Sgt. Ernest Wartell: Including the European theater, I'd say about six million.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: THE PHILIPPINES OCTOBER 1944
- ConnectionsReferenced in Lusting Hours (1967)
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Whats with the hats?
I have seen the movie before years ago on TV and I don't remember much about it from that time. However, this time the first thing I notices all through out the film was-WHATS WITH THE HATS! Each character wore a different style or color hat. I guess the producers wanted the audience to be able to distinguish each actor by the color and style of the hats. Hugh O"Brian was a former Marine so he probably refused to wear an unauthorized COVER (see I did use the right term). His had the symbol in the front. In addition, Mitchem wore jeans. I can't see a real Marine doing that and I also can't see a real Marine talking in such a disrespectful manner. He would have gotten that beaten out of him the first day in boot camp. Me being a gunnut I did notice the man with the M! Garand having the side mounted scope on it (M1D). That really surprised me. When the story opened and the comment was made that the man was an expert with the Garand, he would have carried a M1D and sure enough in the story he did and he used it. All in all it was a good war movie. It was not Platoon but good.
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- swojtak
- Jul 12, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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