The Great Raid
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Cast & Crew
John Dahl
Christopher Baker
Matt Doran
Royston Innes
Christine O'neill
Kristian Schmid
Film Details
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Synopsis
The year is 1945 and hundreds of U.S. soldiers held captive in the brutal Japanese war camps at Cabanatuan in the Philippines are under imminent threat of death. These are the only soldiers who remain alive in the Philippines of the 70,000 American and Allied forces surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army at Bataan in 1942, following the departure of General MacArthur. Forced to walk through the sweltering, mosquito-infested jungles on what would become known as the Bataan Death March, the survivors were then held captive in remote and deadly camps. Now, three years later, with MacArthur back as he promised in the Philippines, the Japanese War Ministry has issued a "Kill All Policy" to annihilate their war camps--and every single U.S. prisoner in them. At a camp named Palawan, 150 U.S. soldiers are forced into trenches, doused in gasoline and set on fire. Meanwhile, believing themselves all but forgotten by their comrades and country, the surviving prisoners at Cabanatuan have dubbed themselves the "ghost soldiers." Among them is Major Gibson, weakened by malaria, who is hanging on by a thread of hope and his love for a Catholic aid worker, Margaret, who has been assisting the Filipino Underground. Back at the 6th Army Headquarters in nearby Luzon, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Mucci, the tough, ambitious but charismatic leader known for inspiring devoted loyalty among his men, has been assigned to find a way to penetrate behind enemy lines and free the U.S. prisoners. The task appears to be strategically impossible--the men will likely face heavy resistance and will be far outnumbered by Japanese troops--but Mucci is never deterred by an extreme challenge. Mucci selects the young, bookish but brilliant Captain Robert Prince to lead the raid, who in turn comes up with a daring plan to have 121 hand-picked, elite Rangers and Alamo Scouts slip 30 miles deep into enemy territory and make a surprise, lightning assault on the camp. To increase the already slim chances for success, the U.S. will join forces with members of the Filipino resistance, led by Captain Juan Pajota, whose intimate knowledge of the lay of the land will help to guide the committed band of men to their ultimate goal.
Director
John Dahl
Cast
Christopher Baker
Matt Doran
Royston Innes
Christine O'neill
Kristian Schmid
Eugenia Yuan
Ken Kikkawa
Elwyn Edwards
Cesar Montano
Craig Mclachlan
Brett Tucker
Gotaro Tsunashima
Logan Marshall-green
Matt Newton
Kuni Hashimoto
Max Martini
Paolo Montalban
Ken Senga
Romina Villanueva
Kenny Doughty
Simon Maiden
Mark Consuelos
Christopher Morris
Den Patricio
Scott Mclean
Luke Pegler
Jourdan Lee Khoo
Neil Fitzpatrick
Kenneth Moraleda
Takayuki Nagano
Chito Sayo
Jackson Raine
Diarmid Heidenreich
Kazuhiro Muroyama
Rafael Roco
Lucas Stibbard
Naoto Uchida
Dale Dye
David Chamberlain
Motoki Kobayashi
Jose Rommel De Montano Manhilot
Natalie Mendoza
Ryan Eigennman
Yutaka Izumihara
Tim Campbell
Connie Nielsen
Nor Domingo
Ramon Jose Leyran
Laura Whitnall
Akira Yoshikawa
Sam Worthington
Lena Cruz
Marcelino Cavestany
Leo Kooistra
Alfred Nicdao
Steve Harman
Marton Csokas
Valerie Berry
Nicholas Bell
Jerome Ehlers
Masa Yamaguchi
Peter Tkacz
Warwick Young
Jeremy Callaghan
Robert Mammone
Koichi Kimura
Iain Gardiner
Res S Cortez
Joseph Fiennes
Shingo Usami
Noel Trinidad
Alvin Clifford Lorenz Anson
Nikko Mackintosh
James Carpinello
Leon Ford
Kentaro Hara
Laird Macintosh
Clayne Crawford
Paul Nakauchi
Sam Robinson
Noel O'neill
Freddie Joe Farnsworth
Benjamin Bratt
Will Gluth
James Franco
Ebong Joson
Crew
Kathleen Adam
Lindsay Adams
Michael Adcock
Tomo Miy Aguchi
Jodie Allen
Rusty Allen
Tim Allen
Christine Altomari
Hossein Amini
Chris Anderson
Glen Anderson
Glenn Antill
Blake Archer
Charlie Armstrong
Vic Armstrong
Damian Ayars
Angelique Badenoch
Michael Bagley
Jason Baird
Michael Balk
Wayne Banney
Cassandra Barbour
Craig Bartlett
Tim Beck
Craig Beckey
Robert Bell
Lawrence Bender
John Bennett
Carlo Bernard
Shane Betterridge
Shane Betterridge
Mandi Bialek-wester
Mandi Bialek-wester
Jennifer Bihr
Keith Bilderbeck
Keith Bilderbeck
Mark Bills
Andrew Bishop
Chris Bone
Bob Booker
Bill Booth
Louise Boothby
Leslie Boozer
Brad Boterhoek
John Bowring
Brendon Boyd
Geoff Bradley
Eli Bratt
William Breuer
William Breuer
Paul Brincat
Michelle Bromham
Ian Brown
Toby Churchill Brown
Melanie Brunt
Louis Bull
Robert Bull
Derek Burgess
Mark Burgess
Greg Burgmann
Rodney Burke
Gillian Butler
Jose Cabrera
Guy Campbell
Joshua Campenhout
Chris Cantwell
Patrick Carmiggelt
Johnny Caruso
Mitch Cass
Ray Chapman
Scott Chestnut
Bernie Childs
Heath Christensen
Patrick Clancey
Dallas Clarke
Ian Clarke
Troy Clarke
Jason Clee
Laura Clelland
Michelle Cloete
Peter Cogar
Jared Collie
Andrew Conder
Rod Conder
Judy Cook
Karla Cook
Simon Cooke
Dana Cooper
Gary Coppola
Kerry Corrigan
Steve Courtney
Nadia Cowell
Nadia Cowell
Aaron Cox
Alexie Cox
Brian Cox
Graham Cox
Mitchell Cox
Gary Cramb
Fiona Crawford
Donnie Creighton
Judith Cruden
Nathan Dalton
Danielle Daly
Danielle Daly
Andrew T Dauchy
Dario Davidis
Scott Dean
Mitch Deans
Maxine Dennett
Wayne Diskin
Gary Dixon
Dawn Douglas-bill
Nicole Downes
Ron Downing
Henry Dray
Michael Dray
Justine Dunn
Clinton Durban
Traci Duxbury
Dale Dye
Nicole Earnshaw
Jeff Eastman
Chris Edwards
David Elmes
Naomie Enfield
Freddie Joe Farnsworth
Charlie Fergusson
Monte Fieguth
Ully Fieguth
Craig Finlayson
Saffron Firkins
Joey Fitzgerald
Christine Flannery
Lindsay Fleay
Brett Flesser
David E Fluhr
Peter Forbes
Darren Frank
Kristine Fraser
Toni French
Toni French
Alex Fry
Andrew Gardiner
Lizzy Gardiner
Steven Gerrior
Danielle Giles
Irene Gleeson
Mark Glindeman
Chris Godfrey
Derek Gogol
Christein Goldstein
Veronique Golledge
Gordon Goodwin
Jon Gordon
Mark S Gordon
Mark S Gordon
Ronny Gordon
Paul Gorrie
Peter Gould
Juan Granja
Warren Grieef
Isobel Griffiths
Andrew Grose
Gabriel Guy
Robert A Hackl
Michael Halford
Lee Hanrahan
Dave Hardie
Jamie Hardt
Jason Hargreaves
Mark Harmon
Don Harper
David Harshbarger
Bradley J Hartsell
Cameron Hassall
Ed Hawkins
Kelly Head
Stephen Head
Graham Hefferman
Jodie Hellingman
Jodie Hellingman
Joey Helman
Grant Hepburn
Ludovic Herpin
Keith Heygate
Dean Hood
Steve Hoskins
Brad Howard
Kim Howard
Tim Hughes
Truck Humphries
Josie Hutchison
Benn Hyde
William Jacobs
Brian W Jennings
Brian W Jennings
Kelly Johanson
Gillian Johnson
Gillian Johnson
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video December 20, 2005
Released in United States Summer August 12, 2005
Based on the books "The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing The Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor" by William Breuer and "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides.
World premeire September 10, 2004 at the Hatch Audiovisual Arts Festival in Bozeman, Montana.
Released in United States Summer August 12, 2005
Released in United States on Video December 20, 2005
