Year: 1943
Runtime: 114 mins
Language: English
Director: Tay Garnett
During Japan’s 1942 invasion of the Philippines, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and thirteen American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge to buy General MacArthur time to secure Bataan. As the Japanese rebuild the bridge and press forward, the men endure hunger, illness, gunfire and the bleak hope of no relief.
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