Grim and fairly relentless true story of squadron of volunteers in WW2 Burma tasked with a single objective, which their general then turns into a more complex and tougher mission, in which they succeed despite being physically and psychologically worn out, riven with illness and vastly reduced in number (from the original 3000 only 100 were still standing at the end).
Certainly catches well the exhaustion, boredom, craziness and camaraderie. Loved the bond between the general Jeff Chandler and his lieutenant Ty Hardin, who has no one at home to write to, so the general says he can write to his household. And the fact of having to write letters to nexts of kin. Loved also their exhaustion on arriving at a Burmese village. 'Girls' one of them says, and the other can't even be bothered to open his eyes.
With Peter Brown, Andrew Duggan, Will Hutchins, Claude Akins. Photographed by William Clothier in CinemaScope. Not quite as distinctively edited as other Fuller films but definitely good. Actually made in the Phillipines. Based on non-fiction book by Charlton Ogburn who was a real Marauder.
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