Objective, Burma!
1945 Directed by Raoul Walsh
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An American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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There's a stereotype view of what WWII movies made during the war are like ... a group of men from all different backgrounds face a challenge, corny action and dialogue, vicious stereotypes about the enemy. Usually this is far from the truth, but it's largely true of this film. The vicious swipes at the Japanese are particularly bad in this one, and while some are based in fact (they certainly did torture prisoners), one can't help but notice that the Germans would never have been called "monkeys" on film. This badly dates the film for me, a fact only compounded by the fact that no location in this film bears even the least resemblance to jungle. I like Errol Flynn, but I can't say I buy him in this kind of film. Not a bad film, but one that really doesn't work for me.
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There's a stereotype view of what WWII movies made during the war are like ... a group of men from all different backgrounds face a challenge, corny action and dialogue, vicious stereotypes about the enemy. Usually this is far from the truth, but it's largely true of this film. The vicious swipes at the Japanese are particularly bad in this one, and while some are based in fact (they certainly did torture prisoners), one can't help but notice that the Germans would never have been called "monkeys" on film. This badly dates the film for me, a fact only compounded by the fact that no location in this film bears even the least resemblance to jungle. I like Errol Flynn, but I can't say I buy him in this kind of film. Not a bad film, but one that really doesn't work for me.