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Merrill's Marauders |  | Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Claude Akins, Charlie Briggs, Jeff Chandler, Andrew Duggan, Ty Hardin
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  30 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 118842
UPC: 085391188421
EAN: 0085391188421
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 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 |
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Product Description
AN AMERICAN ARMY UNIT BATTLES THROUGH THE JUNGLES OF BURMA, REACHES THEIR OBJECTIVE, BUT THEN FINDS THAT THE REAL FIGHTINGIS YET TO COME.
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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. The year is 1944; the U.S. 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. Mission impossible? So it would seem, as the men are exhausted, disease-ridden, disheartened, and ill-equipped; his second in command, Lt. 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. 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. --Sam Graham
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merrill's marauders March 1, 2010
Michael W. East
one of the better wwii movies lots of action and faces you will know if you watched tv in the 60's well written and well acted it tells astory of battles in burma that helped the usa win the war in that part of the war
War in Burma February 27, 2010
Robert Haro (Califronia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A well done film about the adversity American troops encountered fighting the Japanese in Burma during World War II. Jeff Chandler does an excellent job in this film about Merrill's Marauders. Scenery and color are vivid, and the battles fought are depicted very well in comparison to the actual ones. The fighting in the rail yard is memorable and dramatizes the dangers of close combat in such an environment. Some of the Filipino actors playing Japanese soldiers get a bit carried away, but not enough to spoil this must see film about World War II.
Merrill's Marauders : Review February 21, 2010
azturf (Arizona, USA)
Great classic WWII action/adventure film. Actor portrayal was as real as possible and the movie viewer may actually be able to feel the sense of humanity these actors were attempting to generate. War is never worth all of the lives lost - on both sides of the fence...
 From someone who was there..... December 7, 2009
Marin_Guy (Marin, California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My father was a staff sargent in MM and, when he saw the movie, said it was pretty accurate. He said the main thing that was left out was the utter brutality. Because they didn't trust the enemy soldiers that they captured (couldn't release them or send them to the rear lines) and were short on ammo, they bayonetted to death "countless" captured enemy soldiers. He said the Japanese soldiers would fight to the death and then some so - no prisoners taken.
"Too" slick WW2 film September 12, 2009
J. Carey (oregon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is very good in some parts and very bad in others. Jeff Chandler does a good job but most of the rest of the actors seem to be part of the Warner Bros TV series stock company. It's based on a real story and what they went through is pretty amazing.
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