Bataan (1943) | |
| Director(s) | Tay Garnett |
| Producer(s) | Irving Starr, Dore Schary (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | War |
| Top Topics | Army, World War II |
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Bataan (1943) was a War Film directed by Tay Garnett and produced by Dore Schary and Irving Starr.
SYNOPSIS
A group of doomed Americans and Filipinos hold a bridge against invading Japanese. Over-the-top flag waving made this a based-on-fact Hollywood blockbuster of the war era, despite a pretty fake-looking jungle.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
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By Beatrice on Jan 6, 2015 From Flickers in TimeBack to Bataan Directed by Edward Dmytryk Written by Ben Barzman and Richard H. Landau; Original Story by Aeneas MacKenzie and William Gordon 1945/USA RKO Radio Pictures First viewing/Netflix rental Bertha Barnes: [tearfully] No one ever learned it so well. For propaganda-combat, this takes the cake... Read full article
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Desi Arnaz has said it was his idea to recite the Latin prayer "Mea Culpa" during his character's death scene. It was a prayer he learned as a boy in Cuba.
The NAACP gave M-G-M two awards for presenting an African American in an intelligent and sympathetic manner. Dore Schary deliberately did not tell writer Robert Hardy Andrews he was planning to cast an African American as one of the soldiers, in order to avoid any racial speeches in the script.
The character name Corporal Juan Katigbak (played by Roque Espiritu) was changed from its original name of Corporal Jesus Katigbay.
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The NAACP gave M-G-M two awards for presenting an African American in an intelligent and sympathetic manner. Dore Schary deliberately did not tell writer Robert Hardy Andrews he was planning to cast an African American as one of the soldiers, in order to avoid any racial speeches in the script.
The character name Corporal Juan Katigbak (played by Roque Espiritu) was changed from its original name of Corporal Jesus Katigbay.
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