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Audience Member The account of a group of American guerrilla fighters in the Philippines, waiting for MacArthur to reach the country that has been taken over by the Japanese. Left alone in enemy territory, the only signals they are sent is in messages printed on the back of cigarette boxes and received through homemade transmitter. The film is quite dull and outdated. As a matter of fact, overall it seems as inventive as its title. There is never a real feeling of tension, because an awkwardly placed love affair sucks a lot of life from it. In the end, this doesnâ(TM)t stand out from many other films of the kind, and it remains a somewhat anonymous Fritz Lang film. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A classic example of a director's style being trampled all over by the Hollywood machine - this more than pales in comparison to Lang's earlier expressionistic work and contains none of his signature genius. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This is the tale of how good no matter few in number or outsourced and through sheer determination will prevail against evil. There are many examples of courage in this film that manifests itself in a number of different characters and ways, whether it be the Filipino planter who chose to be beaten to death rather than succumb to Japanese interrogation or the Americans who stood and fought for a country they had no involvement in. The movie epitomizes the nature of the diminutive forces of the Filipino resistance against the might of Japan. Although not as esteemed as other war films of its era, it is no less than indispensable for any war film fanatic. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member This tells the story of how people lived in second world war. This movie is a insult to its genre its rated as a childrens film in our country well if I had children I will not let them see it. The film will not entertain the children and doesn't tell the full story of world war 2 this movie shows people shooting that is not all of what happened in world war 2 bombs were thrown and much more none of that was shown in this movie. The acting was incredibly weak it started off average and just dropped it looked as if the actors just didn't have any faith in themselves they started off alright but all of the sudden they constantly talked quietly the acting was just a load of squeeches all these fake emotions it didn't look real even everything was just terrible except the first half hour after that everything in this movie was constantly weak and it was insulting. This movie as low hopes of winning any awards and if they have already I will be amazed because I really don't think its going to happen I almost fell asleep towards the end. Anyone who thinks this is average or good must be crazy this movie was just an insult to its genre there are much better drama,war films out there this stays with Battle of the Bulge it was just as bad as that this movie just showed constant gun shooting seriously I'm really into History its one of my favourite subjects so I know that just showing gun shooting isn't all or anywhere near world war 2. Basically this didn't have enough detail on world war 2 the story was far to slow and it was not interesting the begining was average still that could of been better and the ending and the acting was extremly weak the actors constantly showed nothing. Overall you should not see this there are better films in this genre out there. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Guerrilla action on Leyte during WW2 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member In this I saw a different side to the swashbuckling Tyrone Power I was used to. Still very much a hero, but in a US Naval officer sort of way. A good flim with varied content and positive tempo. The Japanese enemy seemed a bit watered-down, however, and were the weakest point of a fairly noble exercise. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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