Too Late the Hero (1970)
Country: US
Technical: Metrocolor/70mm 144m
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Michael Caine, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews
Synopsis:
An American lieutenant is reluctantly attached to a motley British unit on a Philippine island during WW2. They are sent on a futile mission to take out a Japanese radio transmission station in the midst of the jungle.
Review:
Fashionably cynical war film, following on from Kwai via The Dirty Dozen. The propaganda potential of the radio broadcasts is also played for its demoralizing effect on the men, as in Pork Chop Hill (1959). It's well cast, even if all playing to type, reducing the characters to cyphers.
Country: US
Technical: Metrocolor/70mm 144m
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Michael Caine, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews
Synopsis:
An American lieutenant is reluctantly attached to a motley British unit on a Philippine island during WW2. They are sent on a futile mission to take out a Japanese radio transmission station in the midst of the jungle.
Review:
Fashionably cynical war film, following on from Kwai via The Dirty Dozen. The propaganda potential of the radio broadcasts is also played for its demoralizing effect on the men, as in Pork Chop Hill (1959). It's well cast, even if all playing to type, reducing the characters to cyphers.
Country: US
Technical: Metrocolor/70mm 144m
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Michael Caine, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews
Synopsis:
An American lieutenant is reluctantly attached to a motley British unit on a Philippine island during WW2. They are sent on a futile mission to take out a Japanese radio transmission station in the midst of the jungle.
Review:
Fashionably cynical war film, following on from Kwai via The Dirty Dozen. The propaganda potential of the radio broadcasts is also played for its demoralizing effect on the men, as in Pork Chop Hill (1959). It's well cast, even if all playing to type, reducing the characters to cyphers.