Bataan

Name: Bataan
Director: Tay Garnett
Released: 1943-01-01

1943 American film directed by Tay Garnett

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Released: 1943
Director: Tay Garnett
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Screenwriter: Robert Hardy Andrews
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, Garrett Fort
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, Dudley Nichols
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Producer: Irving Starr
Cast: Robert Taylor
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, George Murphy
, Thomas Mitchell
, Lloyd Nolan
+10 more
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: war film
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2.filmaffinity.com/en/film910787.htmlRetrieved 2016-04-14
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Country of origin: United States

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Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Irving Starr, and directed by Tay Garnett, that stars Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, Lee Bowman, Desi Arnaz and Robert Walker. It follows the fates of a group of men charged with destroying a bridge during the doomed defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese.

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Director of photography: Sidney Wagner
Main subject: Pacific War
World War II
Philippines Campaign
Battle of Bataan
Film editor: George White
Title: Bataan
FSK film rating: FSK 16
Production designer: Edwin B. Willis
Cedric Gibbons
Color: black-and-white
Narrative location: Philippines(1942)
Bataan Peninsula(1942)
Medierådet rating: Prohibited for children under 16
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CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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Distribution format: video on demand
Set in period: World War II
20th century
1940s
1942
Last line: So fought the heroes of Bataan. Their sacrifice made possible our victories in the Coral and Bismarck Seas, at Midway, on New Guinea and Guadalcanal. Their spirit will lead us back to Bataan!

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