Steel storm (film)

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Movie
German title Steel storm
Original title Back to Bataan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Edward Dmytryk
script Ben Barzman ,
Richard H. Landau
production Robert Fellows
music Roy Webb
camera Nicholas Musuraca
cut Marston Fay
occupation

Stahlgewitter (alternate title Two Strike Back ) is an American war film directed by Edward Dmytryk from 1945 .

action

The film begins with the attack by US Army rangers on the Cabanatuan POW camp . The film then fades back to 1942. When the American troops under General MacArthur are forced to withdraw from Bataan , Colonel Joseph Madden of the US Army stays behind to organize guerrilla fighters against the Japanese occupation forces in the Philippines. Madden fights with Filipino resistance fighters to free prisoners of war from Cabanatuan camp. On Bataan, Colonel Joseph Madden and his men listen to a radio announcement. The famous actress Dalisay Delgado calls for no resistance against the Japanese. The situation seems hopeless, the Japanese occupy Bataan. One of his officers, Captain Andrés Bonifacio, has a heavy burden with him. Not only does he have to live with being the grandson of Andrés Bonifacio, a national hero; His former fiancée Dalisay Delgado also appears to be working with the Japanese by broadcasting propaganda for the Japanese over the radio. In fact, Ms. Delgado uses the propaganda broadcasts as a means of relaying sensitive information to the Filipino Resistance without the Japanese becoming suspicious - a fact known only to Colonel Madden and his superiors.

criticism

“Trendy war film that contrasts the daring American freedom fighters with the Japanese beasts. Staged as a propaganda film, from today's perspective it looks like a document of hatred that also approves of violations of international law on the Allied side. Contemporary history and as an example of the effect and style of propaganda films of some interest, otherwise a dishonest work. "

- Lexicon of international film

background

  • Along with Bataan (1942), Brave Women (1943) and Schnellboote vor Bataan (1945), Stahlgewitter is one of several films that revolve around the real battle for Bataan in 1941.
  • When the script was written, the battle for Bataan was not over. The writers constantly updated the script according to current events.
  • Filming lasted 130 days.
  • Robert Fellows previously produced two films about true events in the Pacific War , Regardless of Losses (1943) based on the Doolittle Raid , and Leather Neck (1944), which covers the Battle of Guadalcanal .
  • In the film, Andrés Bonifacio is portrayed as the grandson of Andrés Bonifacio (1863–1897), a Philippine revolutionary leader who fought against the Spaniards at the end of the 19th century. In reality, Bonifacio's only son died of smallpox , so he had no grandchildren either.
  • John Wayne initially didn't want to be doubled for the stunt scenes. As a result, the director and the screenwriter came up with particularly dangerous scenes so that Wayne would challenge a stuntman. In the end, however, it remained that he played all the scenes himself.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steel storm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used