Back To Bataan (1945) - (Movie Clip) Why Do You Fight?

Back to Bataan - (Original Trailer)

A Marine colonel (John Wayne) leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines in Back to Bataan (1945).

Back to Bataan (1945) -- (Movie Clip) You Will Haul Down The Flag!

In case any viewer had doubts about the depravity the enemy or colonial loyalty, a Japanese officer (Abner Biberman) hangs a defiant Filipino schoolmaster (Vladimir Sokoloff), Beulah Bondi the compassionate American teacher, in Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan, 1945.

Back to Bataan (1945) -- (Movie Clip) We're Licked

Colonel Madden (John Wayne) already knows Filipino rebel comrade Andreas Bonifacio (Anthony Quinn) will overcome his doubts, so he suggests a small mission in Back to Bataan, 1945.

Back To Bataan (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Crude Native Cigarettes

Corregidor,1942, John Wayne as U.S. Col. Madden, hears from General Wainwright (John Miljan), and Anthony Quinn as Bonifacio, ranking officer of the allied Philippine Scouts, whose girlfriend is now the radio propaganda voice for the Japanese, who made a reckless heroic decision earlier that day, in another gripping confrontation, in Back To Bataan, 1945.

Back To Bataan (1945) -- (Movie Clip) So Long Skinny

Stirring fantasy, John Wayne the fictional Col. Madden is summoned by John Miljan as General Jonathan “Skinny” Wainwright who, months after the film was released, and after three years in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines, would be celebrated across the U.S. as the returning “Hero of Corregidor,” preparing to surrender, in Edward Dmytryk’s very current RKO propaganda piece, Back To Bataan, 1945.

Back To Bataan (1945) -- (Movie Clip) An Old Filipino Trick

Lawrence Tierney has arrived as U.S. Navy Cmdr. Waite, briefing long-serving John Wayne as Col. Madden and Anthony Quinn as Filipino Scout Captain Bonifacio et al on plans to re-take key positions ca. 1945, precipitating another legit reference to local military history, in RKO’s Back To Bataan, 1945.