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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
Forced to retreat from the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur
promised to return. Set three years later, in January, 1945,
this is the true story of Army ranger Lt. Colonel Henry Mucci
(Bratt), who was chosen by MacArthur to lead an effort to
liberate more than 500 American prisoners of war from the
Japanese camp, Cabanatuan, part of the bloody and infamous
Bataan Death March.
The young colonel, eager to take on this mission first, however,
had to undergo a vigorous guerrilla warfare training program,
before leading his men, the 6th Ranger Battallion, on a hazardous
rescue mission, thirty miles behind enemy lines, that they
were not guaranteed to return from... (Csokas plays a starving
prisoner of war; Fiennes plays the highest-ranking P.O.W.;
Nielsen plays a nurse.)
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Miramax
Based on:
The book, The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed
Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor, by William B. Breuer, which
told the true story of Colonel Henry Mucci's raid on a notorious
Japanese death camp in the Philippines.
Release Date:
December 2, 2005
RELATED LINKS__________
Fan's Website (misc. info and photos)
geocities.com/thegreatraid ---
click here
'On The Set' photos:
themoviebox.net --- CLICK
HERE
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