Five errol flynn movies from the war years by david mermelstein. Objective burma the 1945 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. The burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the british colony of burma. Enemy below 1957 robert mitchum and curt jurgens star in this gripping world war ii drama about an american destroyer and a german uboat stalking each. Its one of the few features of which i am proud, flynn later said. A group of men parachute into japaneseoccupied burma with a dangerous and important mission. Myanmar in 28 photos highlights of myanmarburma from a tourist s eye. A canadian mountie of german descent feigns disaffection with his homeland in hopes of infiltrating and thwarting a nazi sabotage plot. An elite team of paratroopers lands deep behind japanese lines in the jungles of burmaonly to find its escape route blocked. Directed by raoul walsh and starring errol flynn, the film was made by warner bros. The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Brown, george tobias the movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 22 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. To its northeast is sadiya and east of it is ledo, the starting point for the ledo road through burma.
Gallery of movie poster and cover images for objective, burma. Errol flynn stars as captain nelson, who leads a hardy band of paratroopers behind enemy lines in burma, for the purpose of destroying a japanese radar station. Danish subtitles, dutch subtitles, finnish subtitles, french. Franz waxmans academy awardnominated score for the 1945 film starring. Objective burma 1945 download torrent selfiejoomla.
Objective burma 1945 starring errol flynn with images errol. Objective burma 1945 is one of the best war pictures made during the war about the war. A few corny moments aside, objective burma must rate as one of the best combat films of ww2. Jan 20, 2014 trailer for the 1945 classic objective burma. In india, close to its border with western burma, along the brahmaputra river is a place called dibrugah. Filmen er produceret med fremragende grafisk kvalitet, bedste quality of sound and finest bedste skuespillere. Errol flynn, who brought boyish bravado to the adventures of robin hood, dodge city, gentleman jim and other screen yarns, turns in a mature, acclaimed performance as the. Staring errol flynn, james brown, george tobias and warner anderson. Errol flynns surprisingly subdued, stoic performance as captain nelson.
They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old airstrip to be taken back to their base, they find japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemyoccupied jungle. Een oorlogsfilm uit 1945 waarin een missie in het bezette birma anders loopt dan verwacht. If you choose to make an effort to look for film efter titel objective, burma. It was part of the southeast asian theatre of world war ii and primarily involved forces of the allies. Produced for the studio by jerry wald its fine screenplay by ranald mac dougall, and lester cole derived from an original story by alvah bessie. Legend has it that this movie was filmed in the woods and ravines, behind the san anita race track in california. Heres where we start paying back the japs, he growls, chewing on a cigarette in a dainty holder. By this point, the allied forces were beginning to wrap things up against the japanese. The maltese falcon and other film scores by adolph deutsch film music classics. An american platoon parachutes into burma to take out a strategic japanese outpost. This, in addition to devastating fire bombings of tokyo and other major cities, killed millions of enemy women, children, and elderly. Errol flynn, who brought boyish bravado to the adventures of robin hood, dodge city, gentleman jim and other screen yarns, turns in a mature, acclaimed performance as the leader of a paratrooper patrol stranded in burma.
A group of men parachute into japaneseoccupied burma with a dangerous and important. Better and much more accurate than bridge over the river kwai by far. The new warner night at the movies programme features trailers for objective, burma. Clip from old errol flynn movie objective burma 1945. Objective burma soundtrack cd details and availability. The first time i watched this movie was with my father, a wwii veteran of the pacific war.
This is a warner brothers a picture, directed by the great raoul walsh, and it shows. One sunday afternoon is a 1948 musical film directed by raoul walsh, and starring dennis. There is a scene in objective burma which conveys to me, more effectively than any other film, how that rage was born. Errol flynn stars as captain nelson, who leads a hardy band of paratroopers behind enemy lines in burma. He fought from the philippines to japan in the last push until hiroshima.