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Objective, Burma! is a 1945 American war film that is loosely based on the six-month raid by Merrill's Marauders in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War. Directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn , the film was made by Warner Bros. immediately afterthe raid.
Objective, Burma!: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias. A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Raoul Walsh
- 1945-02-17
As the Burma campaign was a predominantly British and Australian operation, the picture was taken as a national insult due to the movie's Americanization of the Burma operation. The resentment that many felt was seen as yet another example of Americans believing they had won the war singlehandedly.
The Warners have achieved a startling degree of realism in "Objective, Burma," which opened yesterday at the Strand. This is without question one of the best war films yet made in Hollywood.
Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Leading a team of 36 commandos, Captain Charles Nelson (Errol Flynn) parachutes into Japanese-occupied Burma in hopes of destroying a critical radar base.
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- Errol Flynn
- Raoul Walsh
- Warner Bros.
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through ...
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Objective, Burma! ★★★★ 1945. Deemed by many to be the greatest and most moving WWII production released during the war. American paratroopers are dropped over Burma where their mission is to destroy a Japanese radar station.
