Amerykańscy spadochroniarze dokonują desantu na terytorium Birmy. Celem ich ataku jest silnie strzeżona placówka okupacyjnych wojsk Japonii. Czy uda im się pokonać wroga?
On its first release in 1945, just after VJ day,
Objective Burma came under fire in the British press--much as
Saving Private Ryan would do some 40 years later--for portraying the jungle war as a solely American operation. But the passage of time has allowed the movie's many merits to outshine its narrow remit. The movie's bone-chilling portrayal of pain, sacrifice and endurance is astonishing; the jungle atmosphere is so persuasive you'd swear it was shot on the actual locations; and you'll never forget the terrifying last dark night on a mountainside--or the crocodiles.
A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonising adventures any World War II film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost tactile realism by the great James Wong Howe. Franz Waxman also contributes one of his finest . Flynn is excellent (he had given his best performance ever in Walsh's Gentleman Jim three years earlier), and he's backed by a solid cast including Henry Hull (as an ageing war correspondent), James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias and Stephen Richards (soon to change his name to Mark Stevens). Incidentally, two of the writers, Alvah Bessie and Lester Cole, were later blacklisted; see if you can spot any Commie propaganda. --Richard T Jameson
Product Description
plotone di paracadutisti americani in birmania attraversa la giungla in territorio nemico per distruggere una stazione radar giapponese. molte scarpe al sole. grazie a walsh e al suo ritmo forsennato, e' uno dei piu' scattanti e realistici film di guerra usciti dall'officina di hollywood. un vero manuale di combattimento. cosi' antigiapponese da diventare razzista. flynn a briglia corta. la trama sarebbe poi stata rielaborata in tamburi lontani. esistono copie in edizione piu' breve (127 minuti) e colorizzata.
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