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Back to Bataan is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Dmytryk released in USA on 30 may 1945 with John Wayne
Back to Bataan (1945)
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Add to a movie listBack to Bataan is a 1945 World War II war film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It depicts events (some fictionalized and some actual) that took place after the Battle of Bataan (1941–42) on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The working title of the film was The Invisible Army.
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The film begins with the then-recent US Army Ranger raid at Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp. The film then flashes back to March 1942.Actors
John Wayne
(Colonel Joseph Madden)
Anthony Quinn
(Captain Andres Bonifacio)
Beulah Bondi
(Bertha Barnes)
Richard Loo
(Maj. Hasko)
Philip Ahn
(Col. Coroki)
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