Bataan

1943 · 114 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 2,826 VOTES · DIR. Tay Garnett

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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.
00:07:26 You join up with the patrol in the grove.
00:10:16 How'd you like to draw them in a raffle?
00:13:23 Had no complaints from officers.
00:16:08 And anytime I give an order that sounds wrong to you, tell me why.
00:19:33 I figure to.
00:23:27 You better know right now those no-tail baboons out there are ichiban jozu.
00:28:31 I was studying to be, Sergeant.
00:31:24 Until and if I can get my plane in the air, I'll take orders from you like the rest.
00:33:40 How many grenades and how much dynamite we got?
00:37:21 He's getting even with you?
00:42:12 Better have an extra belt ready.
00:50:25 ...planes drop bombs on Japs! Bang! Fourth of July!
00:52:49 What do you want to get mad for? If a man's sick, he's sick.
00:57:05 Coming down with this for days?
01:01:29 But the battery is only good for a few hours.
01:05:16 ''...beayo Michaeli Archangelo...
01:08:05 It seems to me that your patrol has done about all that can be done.
01:11:17 Me, I'm gonna die all in one piece...
01:17:48 He wouldn't let me move him. He'd fall apart.
01:23:57 Sight 'em in for interlocking fire across the front.
01:27:58 Hold it.
01:41:10 ''...but we figure...''
01:44:37 We've been heading for that for a long time.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,019
Dialogue density8.9 lines / min
First line00:02:30
Final line01:44:37

Production Record

DirectorTay Garnett
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes2,826