Merrill's Marauders
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Product Description
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
Army’s 5307th Composite Unit, a 3000-strong outfit under the command of Brigadier General Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler), has already been fighting the occupying Japanese forces in the wilds of Burma for several months when they’re assigned to march hundreds of miles through jungles, swamps, and mountains to Myitkyina, a town of considerable strategic importance and the gateway to India, where the Allies fear the Japanese and Nazis will meet and consolidate their forces. The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrill’s Marauders, touting its depiction of "World War II’s most fabulous jungle fighters… (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do," makes director Samuel Fuller’s 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but it’s considerably more than that. --Sam Graham Stockton (Ty Hardin), argues that they'll never make it, but Merrill (who has a heart condition that could bring him down at any moment) refuses to let up. The year is 1944; the U.S. There are numerous combat sequences, most of them quite convincing (including a very cool scene in a concrete maze), but the film’s strength lies not only in its graphic chronicling of the obvious horrors of war but in its sympathetic (but never condescending) portrayal of the more quotidian aspects of these soldiers' miserable lives, from easy banter to quarrels over food and ammunition, from the interactions with locals to the sheer hell of simply walking another step when you’ve already passed the limits of human endurance. Grim, gritty, intense, and realistic (Fuller was an Army vet himself), this is an effective precursor to the director’s best-known movie, The Big Red One. Mission impossible? So it would seem, as the men are exhausted, disease-ridden, disheartened, and ill-equipped; his second in command, Lt.
Product Info
- Actor
- Claude Akins, Charlie Briggs, Jeff Chandler, Andrew Duggan, Ty Hardin
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.33:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Warner Brothers
- Creator
- William H. Clothier, Howard Jackson
- Director
- Samuel Fuller
- EAN
- 0085391188421
- Feature
- Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR Age: 085391188421 UPC: 085391188421 Manufac
- Format
- Color, DVD, NTSC
- Label
- Warner Home Video
- Manufacturer
- Warner Home Video
- Model
- 118842
- MPN
- 085391188421
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Original Release Date
- 2008-01-01
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Warner Home Video
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2008-04-22
- Running Time
- 98
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
- Theatrical Release Date
- 2008
- Title
- Merrill's Marauders
- UPC
- 085391188421
- ASIN
- B0015S2OWI
- Sales Rank
- 6814
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- May 21, 2012, 9:12 am
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