649:(London), aware of the Allies’ very cosmopolitan forces in Burma, was displeased: “This long film has met with objections from American service men, and it is indeed a little extraordinary for it to imply that the Burma campaign was fought almost entirely without the aid of the British. There is one reference to the Fourteenth Army; during the course of the action it is rashly presumed by one of the party of American parachutists that a British outpost may be somewhere about, but this suggestion is promptly snubbed, and for the rest Mr. Flynn and the indomitable band he leads have it all their own way....the Japanese are shown as contemptibly inefficient fighters in their own kind of territory, and not all the parade of stubble chins and sweat-grimed faces can disguise the film’s lack of honesty in its account of a particular operation as well as of the general campaign.”
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ambushed the other unit. The remaining soldiers head out on foot and come across an enemy encampment where the captured troops have been held prisoner but discover, to their horror, that they have all been tortured and mutilated. Only Lt. Jacobs remains alive long enough to relate what happened and begs Nelson to kill him before he dies of his injuries. The surviving group is attacked by returning
Japanese soldiers and forced to retreat into the jungle. The men must then cross the swamps in their attempt to make it back to safety through the enemy-occupied jungle.
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London 1945 premiere was remarkable: At a line in the script, (by an
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has become the familiar material of a dozen such films....for the most part things happen just as they always have under the circumstances. Even the comedy exchanges, in most of which the cynical Gotham cabbie participates, have the ring of something you have heard before in exactly the same words.”
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called the film: "serious, hard and lacks any sort of female interest – the enemy are ruthless and clever and the soldiers still wisecrack, but they are professional, no-nonsense killers who follow orders and get along with each other (unless really stressed) i.e. there is no contrived in-fighting."
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The mission is an overwhelming success as the 36-man team quickly take out the station and its personnel. But when the airborne troops arrive at an old airstrip to be taken back to their base, they find the
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thought the film overlong - “It is one thing for an actual mission to be that long, quite another for a movie based upon it, a truth that has not yet occurred to
Hollywood” - and too familiar, despite the novel location: “The characters...are pretty much the same ones who have fought through other
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wrote: "This is without question one of the best war films yet made in
Hollywood. There are no phony heroics by Errol Flynn or any of the other members of a uniformly excellent cast. These boys conduct themselves like real soldiers and even the newspaper correspondent is a credit to the craft. The
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Cole felt that Bessie did not deserve his credit on the film for story, saying he only contributed some pages, and felt he and MacDougall should have had it. However, he decided not to challenge the credit because Bessie was a friend. Cole was disappointed, however, when Bessie went on to earn an
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noted: "The film has considerable movement, particularly in the early reels and the tactics of the paratroopers are authentic in their painstaking detail. However, while the scripters have in the main achieved their purpose of heightening the action, there are scenes in the final reels that could
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To reduce the likelihood of detection, the group splits into two smaller units and plans to meet up at a deserted
Burmese village. But when Nelson arrives at the meeting place, there's no sign of the other group. Eventually, they find a wounded comrade, Hollis, who tells them that the Japanese
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who wrote a "dozen or so" pages before being pulled off the project by Wald and assigned to something else. The job of writing the story and screenplay was given to Cole and a new writer for film,
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immediately after the raid. The plot of the film is almost a carbon copy of "Northwest
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Thomas, Tony; Behlmer, Rudy; McCarty, Clifford (1969).
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1194:"The Films of Errol Flynn: Part 3 The War Years"
849:Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
1392:Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole
569:Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
267:that is loosely based on the six-month raid by
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1289:"Warners Suspend 'Burma' in Britain"
1238:"French box office information 1945"
1156:"'Objective Burma' with Errol Flynn"
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1192:Vagg, Stephen (November 17, 2019).
973:"Screen News Here and in Hollywood"
2574:World War II films made in wartime
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1295:. September 26, 1945. p. 27.
757:The film was nominated for three
1307:"Film to be banned at Singapore"
1136:"Film Reviews: Objective, Burma"
606:have been edited more closely."
461:as the British Major Fitzpatrick
1269:. September 27, 1945. p. 1
943:. January 26, 1944. p. 23.
2514:American black-and-white films
1181:. January 29, 1945. p. 4.
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2539:Films directed by Raoul Walsh
2155:They Died with Their Boots On
1263:"British ban Objective Burma"
1012:– via Internet Archive.
979:. April 25, 1944. p. 16.
879:"Out of the Hollywood Hopper"
877:Stanley, Fred (May 7, 1944).
346:1944 aerial invasion of Burma
2544:Films produced by Jerry Wald
2534:Films scored by Franz Waxman
2529:1940s English-language films
2438:The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
1555:AFI Catalog of Feature Films
1227:(London), 24 September 1945.
1037:"Limping Lizzie- Movie star"
2569:World War II aviation films
1073:India-Burma Theater Roundup
567:Exteriors were shot at the
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2302:Captain Horatio Hornblower
2219:The Horn Blows at Midnight
1438:. London: Atlantic Books.
1085:"Waxman: Objective Burma."
188:January 26, 1945
1746:Should a Husband Forgive?
1434:Hobbes, Nicholas (2003).
861:10.1080/01439689508604551
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2554:Films shot in California
2414:The King and Four Queens
2366:A Lion Is in the Streets
1474:The Films of Errol Flynn
1453:Holston, Kim R. (1994).
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495:that was awarded a 1942
27:1945 film by Raoul Walsh
1417:Oxford University Press
1212:Washington Evening Star
1097:Retrieved: May 5, 2013.
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287:, the film was made by
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2016:Every Night at Eight
2008:Baby Face Harrington
1936:Women of All Nations
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379:as Cpl. Gabby Gordon
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1893:The Cock-Eyed World
1861:The Loves of Carmen
1797:The Thief of Bagdad
1781:Kindred of the Dust
1698:The Innocent Sinner
1214:, 23 February 1945.
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816:"Objective, Burma!"
633:The Washington Star
545:French North Africa
511:Merrill's Marauders
449:as Sergeant Chattau
269:Merrill's Marauders
263:is a 1945 American
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2056:Hitting a New High
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1642:Blue Blood and Red
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1396:. Ramparts Press.
1315:. January 17, 1948
1312:The Canberra Times
1293:The New York Times
1161:Harrison's Reports
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1113:The New York Times
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941:The New York Times
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1944:The Yellow Ticket
1845:What Price Glory?
1549:Objective, Burma!
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1500:Objective, Burma!
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1464:978-0-89950-8-580
1445:978-1-84354-229-2
1426:978-0-19507-6-783
1403:978-0-878-67085-7
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