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Too Late the Hero

BBC One
on BBC One London

This wartime drama concludes this week's trio of films starring Michael Caine
South Pacific, November 1942: the Japanese are holding a vital part of a small island. Unless their radio transmitter can be silenced an American warship will be destroyed. Lt Lawson of the US Navy is assigned to a 15-man British force whose mission is to destroy the Japanese base.
Teletext subtitles: page 888
Films: pages 46-56

Contributors

Director:
Robert Aldrich
Private Tosh Hearne:
Michael Caine
Lt Lawson:
Cliff Robertson
Thorton:
Ian Bannen
Colonel Thompson:
Harry Andrews
Captain Hornsby:
Denholm Elliott
Campbell:
Ronald Fraser
Corporal McLean:
Lance Percival
Johnstone:
Percy Herbert
Captain Nolan:
Henry Fonda
Major Yamaguchi:
Ken Takakura
Sergeant Major:
Patrick Jordan
Source: Radio Times

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