Rotten
There certainly is no accounting for the mechanistic nature of the script, for the lapses in continuity or for the lameness of the professionals in the cast.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
One of the great adventures to come out of the Pacific!
1950 · 1h 45m · Approved
Drama, War
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Overview
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
Director and cast
- Fritz Lang Director
- Tyrone Power as Ensign Chuck Palmer
- Micheline Presle as Jeanne Martinez (as Micheline Prelle)
- Tom Ewell as Jim Mitchell
- Robert Patten as Lovejoy (as Bob Patten)
- Tommy Cook as Miguel
- Juan Torena as Juan Martinez
- Jack Elam as The Speaker
- Robert Barrat as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
- Rosa Del Rosario Cast
- Vic Diaz Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A routine but effective war movie.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
It's not a terrible movie, but eliminating the romance with planter's wife Presle and sprucing up the script might have made rather more of it.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh
Footage has some good, male humor mixed in with the derrin-do, and Fritz Lang's direction develops a strong sense of expectancy and suspense in the story-telling.
Variety Staff, Variety
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