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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391188421
Feature: Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR Age: 085391188421 UPC: 085391188421 Manufac
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 118842
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Features:- Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR Age: 085391188421 UPC: 085391188421 Manufac
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Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) aka "Merrill's Marauders" behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/MILITARY & WAR UPC: 085391188421 Manufacturer No: 118842
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The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrill's Marauders, touting its depiction of "World War II's most fabulous jungle fighters… (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do," makes director Samuel Fuller's 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but it's considerably more than that. The year is 1944; the U.S. Army's 5307th Composite Unit, a 3000-strong outfit under the command of Brigadier General Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler), has already been fighting the occupying Japanese forces in the wilds of Burma for several months when they're assigned to march hundreds of miles through jungles, swamps, and mountains to Myitkyina, a town of considerable strategic importance and the gateway to India, where the Allies fear the Japanese and Nazis will meet and consolidate their forces. Mission impossible? So it would seem, as the men are exhausted, disease-ridden, disheartened, and ill-equipped; his second in command, Lt. Stockton (Ty Hardin), argues that they'll never make it, but Merrill (who has a heart condition that could bring him down at any moment) refuses to let up. There are numerous combat sequences, most of them quite convincing (including a very cool scene in a concrete maze), but the film's strength lies not only in its graphic chronicling of the obvious horrors of war but in its sympathetic (but never condescending) portrayal of the more quotidian aspects of these soldiers' miserable lives, from easy banter to quarrels over food and ammunition, from the interactions with locals to the sheer hell of simply walking another step when you've already passed the limits of human endurance. Grim, gritty, intense, and realistic (Fuller was an Army vet himself), this is an effective precursor to the director's best-known movie, The Big Red One. --Sam Graham
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This is very good in some parts and very bad in others. Jeff Chandler does a good job but most of the rest of the actors seem to be part of the Warner Bros TV series stock company. It's based on a real story and what they went through is pretty amazing.
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Merrill's Marauders is an excellent movie covering the Army's early special operations into Burma during WWII where men did the impossible by marching 1500 miles through dense jungles, supported only by air drop supplies to take on the Japanese as America's only fighting force in the region. An action packed thriller that brings the viewer into the experience and shows the dedication and tenacity of the American figthing man. A must have for anyone's video library.
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A lost art is the making of good war films. This is one of those. Great charachters, good acting, plenty of action, no political correctness. This is just an entertaining, good time film. this one is a keeper.
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It was enjoyable to watch this 1962 movie about Merrill's Marauders starring Jeff Chandler and so many familiar faces from that time. This was the way Hollywood used to make movies about the American military instead of the anti-American, anti-U.S. military, leftist drivel they put out now. Highly recommended for a glimpse of a little-known fighting unit in the forgotten China-Burma-India Theatre of WW2.
Rating:  -
This is a fine film with your typical "characters" mixed in with very beliveable members of an elite military unit. Based on fact with colorful tweaks it is a rainy day popcorn movie. Too bad you can pick out who will "get it" from the first 15 minutes of the film! But this was typical of the time. I would still say add it to your collection and keep it handy for opening talks with the kids about what happens and what is shown to happen by Hollywood...then have them look it up on Google and learn ... Read More
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