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- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 22 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 22 m
Summary A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Written By: Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 22 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 22 m
Objective, Burma!
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Summary A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Written By: Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
79
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Flynn gives one of his most convincing and powerful performances, and Raoul Walsh's direction is nothing less than excellent, with the great action director maintaining a harrowing pace, providing a wealth of interesting military detail, and delivering one thrilling scene after another.
The British hated it (because their soldiers took Burma), but this is a rock-solid Walsh actioner, with Errol Flynn, James Brown and Henry Hull. [06 Apr 2007, p.C7]
Objective Burma!, which is directed strikingly by Raoul Walsh and has a documentary aura to it, is one of the finest and most realistic World War II dramas made during the war. [25 Oct 1992, p.61]
It's a piece of almost instant history – and, as such, it gets the technical and cultural details of military life spot on.
Raoul Walsh's lengthy, relatively gritty 1945 war movie stars Errol Flynn as the leader of a paratrooper group that goes after a key Japanese target. [02 Sep 1999]
The taut action, sparse dialogue, and faultless technique keep things moving so fast that there's no time to reflect upon the morality of war or the miraculous way in which Flynn and his men survive against such overwhelming odds.
The film has considerable movement, particularly in the early reels, and the tactics of the paratroopers are authentic in their painstaking detail. However, while the scripters have in the main achieved their purpose of heightening the action, there are scenes in the final reels that could have been edited more closely.
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