Back to Bataan

Back 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 194142 on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The working title of the film was The Invisible Army.

As the U.S. Army under General MacArthur struggles to hold on at Bataan against the Japanese, Colonel Joseph Madden John Wayne orders one of his officers, Captain Andrs Bonifcio Anthony Quinn, to shape up. Bonifcio has been under a strain because his sweetheart Dalisay Delgado Fely Franquelli is apparently collaborating with the Japanese, broadcasting propaganda over the radio.Later, Madden is picked to slip through the lines to organize Filipinos to fight as guerrillas against the occupying Japanese forces. His commanding officer lets him know that Delgado is actually using the propaganda broadcasts to secretly transmit valuable information to them, but he is ordered to reveal that fact to no one, not even Bonifcio. ........

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