Bataan (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bataan |
| Original title | Bataan |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tay Garnett |
| script | Robert Hardy Andrews |
| production | Irving Starr |
| music | Bronislau caper |
| camera | Sidney Wagner |
| cut | George White |
| occupation | |
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Bataan is an American war film directed by Tay Garnett from 1943. The German premiere was on October 25, 1963.
action
During the Second World War , the US Army had to fight back in the Pacific. A bridge spans a gorge on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines . After the army and some civilians have passed the bridge, a hastily ranged group of volunteers is supposed to blow up the bridge. In the group is a black explosives expert, a Mexican-American tank driver, a paramedic with strict moral standards, an engineer, a local guide, a cook and a naive young sailor. There are also Sergeant Dane and Corporal Feingold from the infantry and Barney Todd, a radio operator. The leader of the group is Captain Lassiter.
The group blows up the bridge, but Lassiter is shot by a sniper. Dane takes over the leadership of the group. Little by little, the group is being decimated, both by the enemy and by malaria . Air Force Lieutenant Bentley and his mechanic, Katigbak from the Philippines, are frantically trying to construct an airplane. You make it, but Bentley is fatally wounded. Bentley loads dynamite, starts the machine and flies in kamikaze fashion towards the foundations of the bridge so that the Japanese cannot rebuild them.
The remaining men repel a frontal attack by the Japanese. Two more men are killed, this time by Japanese who have pretended to be dead. Sergeant Dane as the last survivor digs his grave next to his fallen comrades and lies down in it. The film ends with Dane firing from the grave at the approaching Japanese.
background
MGM paid $ 6,500 to use scenes from John Ford's war film The Last Patrol (1934).
Cedric Gibbons (eleven Oscars) and Edwin B. Willis (eight Oscars) were responsible for the film construction, with Lyle R. Wheeler (five Oscars) acting as advisor. Sound engineer Douglas Shearer (seven Oscars) came on set with an Academy Award , special effects artists Warren Newcombe (three Oscars) and A. Arnold Gillespie (five Oscars) won their awards later in their careers.
Historical background
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the next on the agenda was the invasion of the Philippines. In the Battle of Bataan , which began on January 1, 1942, the combined forces of the Philippines and the United States , which had been pushed back from Manila , had to withdraw to the peninsula in the hope of being evacuated from there. But the evacuation could not be carried out. After the capitulation on April 9, 1942, the infamous death march from Bataan took place , during which the Allied prisoners of war (approx. 70,000 men) had to travel almost 60 kilometers to a camp. Up to 16,000 prisoners are said to have died in the march.
Reviews
For the film-dienst , the film was a "propagandistic war film that glorified false heroism and militaristic thinking."
Web links
- Bataan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bataan at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bataan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .