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Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

WWII drama about the struggles of the Philippine army and resistance movement following the Japanese capture of the Bataan Peninsula. When a US army colonel is ordered to organise guerrilla fighters in the Philippines, he leaves in charge his second-in-command, the descendant of a Philippine patriot, who he later encounters marching barefoot as a prisoner of the victorious Japanese. The fight to repel the invasion begins. Show less

Contributors

Col Joseph Madden:
John Wayne
Capt Andres Bonifacio:
Anthony Quinn
Bertha Barnes:
Beulah Bondi
Dolici Dalgado:
Fely Franquelli
Maj Hasko:
Richard Loo
Col Coroki:
Philip Ahn
Lt Commander Waite:
Lawrence Tierney
Sgt Bernessa:
Alex Havier
Gen Homma:
Leonard Strong
Bindle Jackson:
Paul Fix

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