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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 after the raid. The plot of the film is almost a carbon copy of " Northwest Passage ...
Objective, Burma! Released Feb 17, 1945 2h 22m War List. 86% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 73% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings. Leading a team of 36 commandos, Captain Charles Nelson (Errol Flynn) parachutes ...
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- Errol Flynn
- Raoul Walsh
- Warner Bros.
'Objective Burma' was a highly popular but also highly controversial film and a very good one about the war in Burma. The controversy was that the heroes are American soldiers, (including the Tasmanian Flynn, whose character, Captain Nelson, says he is from Maine - I wonder if he ever met Hawkeye Pierce or Jessica Fletcher), in a theater of war that dominated by the British, Indians and Chinese.
According to Warners, six cameras were used to shoot the climactic hilltop battle sequence. All the weapons, uniforms, and gear used in this movie are original and accurate. This was possible due to the fact that these were still in use to the US military when this film was made. WW2 movies made in recent times use reproduction weapons and gear.
The film has considerable movement, particularly in the early reels, and the tactics of the paratroopers are authentic in their painstaking detail. However, while the scripters have in the main achieved their purpose of heightening the action, there are scenes in the final reels that could have been edited more closely. Read More.
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- Raoul Walsh
- Approved
- Errol Flynn
Objective, Burma, directed exceedingly well by Raoul Walsh from a first-class script by Ranald MacDougall and Lester Cole, is a stirring tribute to the sterling fighting men who helped to reopen Burma after the initial Japanese onslaught in the Pacific.
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Aug 6, 2021 · Warner Archive presents Objective Burma! for the first time on Blu-Ray with 1080p transfer sourced from what is almost assuredly a 4K scan of the original camera negative, but these details were not made available. Warner Archive nearly always delivers top-notch work, and the image is nothing short of stunning for a film that is over seventy-five years old.
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