Robert Taylor - Bataan (1943)

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Being a war film made during the WWII you can see clearly anti-Japanese propaganda, as in many movies filmed in Hollywood at that time. In spite of the depiction of the Japanese as cold-blooded killers and the irritating expressions like "dirty Japs" and "monkeys", Bataan is a remarkable film standing out by:
...being a realistic and dramatic portrayal of men in war. The squad stands air attacks, snipers, malaria, shortages of medicine, food and potable water, besides suffering weariness, impotence and discouragement.
...featuring a fully integrated Army; there's a Jewish, a African-American, an Hispanic and two Filipinos. The characters, representing the diverse social spectrum of United States regardless of race or creed, are treated equally.
...being entirely filmed on a set at Culver City Studios, re-creating faithfully the oppressive and gloomy atmosphere of a tropical jungle with its dense foliage and wriggling ground fog.
...presenting realistic fight sequences never shown up to that time; the hand to hand, face to face combat scenes are shocking and startling .
...the unforgettable the last scene when Robert Taylor- Sergeant Dane, the last remaining man, exhausted and wounded, digs his own grave after all his men have been picked off one by one by the Japanese, and soon after he realizes that the enemy have surrounded him, opens fire, holds his machine gun and screaming, keeps it firing straight at the camera until the end.

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One of the best war movies of it;s time