Bataan (1943)
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
- Released
- 1943-06-03
- Genres
- Action, Drama, War
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Tay Garnett, Robert Hardy Andrews
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 37 votes
Cast
- Robert Taylor as Sgt. Bill Dane
- George Murphy as Lt. Steve Bentley
- Thomas Mitchell as Cpl. Jake Feingold
- Lloyd Nolan as Cpl. Barney Todd
- Lee Bowman as Capt. Henry Lassiter
- Robert Walker as Leonard Purckett
- Desi Arnaz as Felix Ramirez
- Barry Nelson as F.X. Matowski
- Phillip Terry as Matthew Hardy
- Roque Espiritu as Corp. Juan Katigbak
- Kenneth Spencer as Wesley Eeps
- Alex Havier as Yankee Salazar