Bataan

original title:
Bataan
country / year of production:
USA / 1943
original length:
113 min. , black/white
premiere:
3 June 1943
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
William Taylor Garnett
film script:
Robert Hardy Andrews
producer:
Irving Starr
cinematographer:
Sidney Wagner
editor:
composer:
Bronislau Kaper
cast (role):
Robert Taylor (Sergeant Bill Dane) , George Murphy (Lt. Steve Bentley) , Thomas Mitchell (Corporal Jake Feingold) , Lloyd Nolan (Corporal Barney Todd) , Lee Bowman (Captain Henry Lassiter) , Robert Taylor , George Murphy , Thomas Mitchell , Lloyd Nolan , Lee Bowman
more:
plot synopsis:
Japan has just invaded the Phillipines and the US Army attempts a desperate defence. Thirteen men are chosen to blow up a bridge on the Bataan peninsula and keep the Japanese from rebuilding it.
keywords:
bridge , invasion , infantry
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Thomas O. Kelly. „Race and Racism in the American World War II Film. The negro, the Nazi, and the ‘Jap’ in Bataan and Sahara“. MichA 24 (1992), 4, 571-583.
remarks:
One of the earliest war entries in which a black soldier appears on equal footing with other fighting men.
availability:
Video NTSC, DVD