Manila Calling


Manila Calling is a 1942 American blackandwhite World War II war film drama from 20th Century Fox, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel, directed by Herbert I. Leeds and starring Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason, Lester Matthews, Louis Jean Heydt, and Ted North.

After the Japanese army invades the Philippines and captures the radio station owned by the American Radio Communications Company, the staff manages to escape into the jungle, where they meet up with a band of determined Filipino Scouts Moros. Together, they eventually cut their way through the jungle and make it to the coast.The ARCC staff, made up of radio technician Jeff Bailey Cornel Wilde and communications men Lucky Matthews Lloyd Nolan and Tom ORourke James Gleason, find an advance Japanese force occupying the plantation of an old friend. Working with the Moros as a guerrilla unit, they attack and kill the Japanese, seizing the plantation for its radio transmitter. ........

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