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Objective Burma [1954] [VHS]

VHS ~ Raoul Walsh|Errol Flynn|James Brown (II)|William Prince
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Actors: Raoul Walsh|Errol Flynn|James Brown (II)|William Prince
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English, Japanese
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • Run Time: 135 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CJNL
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,858 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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On its first release in 1945, just after VJ day, Objective Burma came under fire in the British press--much as Saving Private Ryan would do some 40 years later--for portraying the jungle war as a solely American operation. But the passage of time has allowed the movie's many merits to outshine its narrow remit. The movie's bone-chilling portrayal of pain, sacrifice and endurance is astonishing; the jungle atmosphere is so persuasive you'd swear it was shot on the actual locations; and you'll never forget the terrifying last dark night on a mountainside--or the crocodiles.

A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonising adventures any World War II film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost tactile realism by the great James Wong Howe. Franz Waxman also contributes one of his finest music scores. Flynn is excellent (he had given his best performance ever in Walsh's Gentleman Jim three years earlier), and he's backed by a solid cast including Henry Hull (as an ageing war correspondent), James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias and Stephen Richards (soon to change his name to Mark Stevens). Incidentally, two of the writers, Alvah Bessie and Lester Cole, were later blacklisted; see if you can spot any Commie propaganda. --Richard T Jameson

Synopsis
Captain Nelson leads a crack squadron of paratroopers behind enemy lines to destroy a Japanese radar unit. When an ambush cuts off their only escape route, his troop are forced into the swamp-infested hell of the Burmese jungle. The harrowing fight for survival begins in a realistic account of the grim hardships facing brave men in battle.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing under the sun is alien to Walsh, 15 Feb 2004
By Michael Bo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Objective Burma [1945] [DVD] [1954] (DVD)
Raoul Walsh has to be the most agonizingly undervalued of all Hollywood maestros of yore. When the time came to do 'Objective Burma' he had a glorious career behind him spanning more than 30 years, with bona fide masterworks like 'Regeneration', ’Sadie Thompson’, ’Big Trail’, ’Roaring Twenties’, ’High Sierra’ and others, and yet every second of ’Burma’ is briskly paced and enthrallingly dynamic. In his day Walsh was best known for his action sequences, but everytime you revisit his films, not least this one, you are reminded that nothing human, absolutely nothing under the sun was alien to Hawks as a person and as a director. He succeeds where almost any other director of ensemble movies fails, that is in investing every single cast member with a description that is so precise, so wellrounded and unsentimental, so unlike all the others that you actually sit there with an ache in your heart for all the knowledge, all the feel for the medium, the innate sense of pacing that seems all but lost today where almost no director, certainly no one in Hollywood, dares to communicate this intelligently. Errol Flynn is subdued, pure in his acting and so matter-of-factly heroic that it would shatter it, were he to do do a deed that was actually heroic in the contemporary Hollywood sense. His heroism is a given, but so is his fear and his insecurity.
A masterpiece of moviemaking.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing under the sun is alien to Walsh, 20 Feb 2004
By Michael Bo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Objective Burma [DVD] [1945] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Raoul Walsh has to be the most agonizingly undervalued of all Hollywood maestros of yore. When the time came to do 'Objective Burma' he had a glorious career behind him spanning more than 30 years, with bona fide masterworks like 'Regeneration', ’Sadie Thompson’, ’Big Trail’, ’Roaring Twenties’, ’High Sierra’ and others, and yet every second of ’Burma’ is briskly paced and enthrallingly dynamic. In his day Walsh was best known for his action sequences, but everytime you revisit his films, not least this one, you are reminded that nothing human, absolutely nothing under the sun was alien to Walsh as a person and as a director. He succeeds where almost any other director of ensemble movies fails, that is in investing every single cast member with a character that is so precise, so wellrounded and unsentimental, so unlike all the others that you actually sit there with an ache in your heart for all the knowledge, all the feel for the medium, the innate sense of pacing that seems all but lost today where almost no director, certainly no one in Hollywood, dares to communicate this intelligently. Errol Flynn is subdued, pure in his acting and so matter-of-factly heroic that it would shatter it, were he to do do a deed that was actually heroic in the contemporary Hollywood sense. His heroism is a given, but so is his fear and his insecurity.
A masterpiece of moviemaking.
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6 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars It's Rubbish, 4 Oct 2007
By ray dorrity "ray dorrity" (New Forest, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Objective Burma [1945] [DVD] [1954] (DVD)
Typical Hollywood rubbish!

"Let's re-write history guys and pretend the Brits weren't in Burma. Let's say that the good 'ole USA did it all alone!"

Tell that to an ex 14th Army man, or an ex Chindit!

If you know anything about the War, avoid this like the plague.

There again, if you know nothing about the War, you might enjoy it.

I think it's rubbish. I score it minus 10 stars if I could.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a classic
firstly , this movie does not pretend that the british were not in burma, indeed the british, chinese and burmese involvement is mentioned at the end of the film. Read more
Published 3 months ago by H. Sharp

4.0 out of 5 stars Objective Burma
A very well made WW2-story with a good cast. One of Flynn's all time best. Very good photo and director Walsh never get lost in a trap of propaganda.
Published 3 months ago by Carleric Bergqvist

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad as it gets
This is typical of the American film type that insists that they always win ..everywhere... even when they weren't there. Read more
Published 18 months ago by J. N. Bullock

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