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Bataan (1943)
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter (Lee Bowman), Sgt. Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and a diverse group of American soldiers are chosen to blow up a bridge on the Bataan peninsula and keep the Japanese from rebuilding it.
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MGM and the War Department teamed for this flag waving combat drama that influenced a number of future war movies.June 02, 2006
An exciting flagwaving big box office Alamo-esque suicide mission World War II film.October 30, 2006
Since it was basically a tale of defeat, the nervous producers emphasized heroism, but later, under criticism of fabricating the facts with mechanically packed incidents, MGM was forced to acknowledge "some melodramatic flaws and technical mistakes."