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Bataan Overview:

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 Time

Back 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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Bataan Facts
This film's dedication states that it is dedicated to the heroes of Bataan.
The character name Corporal Juan Katigbak (played by Roque Espiritu) was changed from its original name of Corporal Jesus Katigbay.
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.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid RKO $6,500 for the right to use scenes from The Lost Patrol in this movie. In his autobiography, M-G-M executive producer Dore Schary refers to this film as a remake of that one.
The Bataan of the film's title refers to both the World War II Battle of Bataan and the place Bataan which is a Central Luzon region province on Luzon island in the Philippines which occupies the whole of the Bataan Peninsula on the island.
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