Bataan
1943 · 114 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 2,826 VOTES · DIR. Tay Garnett
Overview
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,019 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:30 - That's a monkey, Jake. - Yeah.
00:07:28 Up the slope, against the cliffs. That will be our center of operations.
00:10:23 What difference does it make what their names are?
00:13:30 We didn't get time for signed requisitions for some of what we collected, Sarge.
00:17:05 First hitch in the Army?
00:20:00 - Check the lines? - Yeah, they're okay.
00:24:15 - You better make him last. - Oh, gum, I got plenty of.
00:29:02 But we reckon he was prepared for that.
00:32:00 Before I was an usher and played in the band, I done some work in a garage.
00:34:12 Yeah, mule.
00:40:08 Yep.
00:45:35 You know...
00:51:09 Somebody got to go tell the General.
00:54:01 Rome wasn't built in a day. It says in the book.
00:57:59 The Corporal and I figured we'd need a few more night's work, but...
01:02:40 Worked on him a long time before they finally strangled him...
01:06:51 Yeah.
01:09:47 I'd hate to have you do that, Lieutenant.
01:13:41 Let's go, Hardy.
01:20:38 Hey, look at it. Look at it!
01:25:30 I never do.
01:39:25 I call my mother Mum.
01:42:40 Yeah. Get back on No. 3.
40:00:00 getting killed in the infantry.
Cast & Characters
Robert Taylor
Sergeant Bill Dane
George Murphy
Lieut. Steve Bentley
Lloyd Nolan
Corp. Barney Todd
Thomas Mitchell
Corp. Jake Feingold
Lee Bowman
Capt. Henry Lassiter
Robert Walker
Leonard Purckett
Desi Arnaz
Felix Ramirez
Barry Nelson
F.X. Matowski
Phillip Terry
Matthew Hardy
Roque Espiritu
Corp. Juan Katigbak
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,019
Dialogue density8.9 lines / min
First line00:02:30
Final line40:00:00
Production Record
DirectorTay Garnett
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes2,826