#The great raid full movie movie

The Rangers assigned to the daring rescue operation are aware of what is at stake. The prisoners at Cabanatuan have an uneasy feeling when the Japanese tell them that the Americans will soon retake the Phillippines and they order the prisoners to dig air raid shelters. One scene from another POW camp shows prisoners being burned to death in an air raid shelter by their Japanese captors. The Japanese did not believe in surrender and had no respect for any soldier who did surrender. The film also makes it clear that the Japanese intended to murder the POWs rather than allow them to be liberated by the Allies. Their numbers thinned and they lost hope of ever being rescued. The film makes it clear that while promises were made (“I Shall Return,” McArthur famously said) nothing was done for three long years as the American prisoners were beaten, starved and murdered. Breuer's “The Great Raid on Cabanatuan” and Hampton Sides' “Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission.” The POWs in Cabanatuan were among the relatively few survivors of the “Bataan Death March.” They were part of one of the worst defeats in military history, one from which General Douglas McArthur escaped, but many others did not. The film is based on two books, William B. Army Ranger unit which had not seen action for a while was given the difficult assignment of going 30 miles behind enemy lines to rescue 500 POWs being held by Japanese troops at the Cabanatuan POW camp. forces were taking back the Phillippines in January, 1945. The story takes place in the final months of World War II when U.S. 7, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

#The great raid full movie movie

Oddly enough, I watched this movie (on video) on Dec.

It is “inspired by a true story.” The true story part of it works. It is a black-and-white story of a brilliantly executed raid to rescue 500 American POWs wrapped with a flimsy cloth of anti-occupation spy intrigue and romance. The Great Raid Throwback war movie about forgotten heroism by Robert Roten, Film Criticĭecem- “The Great Raid” is a throwback to the war movies of the 1940s when the Japanese were portrayed as entirely evil and the Americans and their allies were entirely good. Laramie Movie Scope: The Great Raid Laramie Movie Scope: