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Binding: DVD
Graphics Memory Size: Widescreen, Color
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishUnknown
Publisher: 1
Total External Bays Free: 2005
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total S Video Out Ports: 131 unknown-units
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Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them. Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
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"The Great Raid" (2005) wasn't a great box office success. That's a sad surprise! This is a very good film. Director John Dahl, with only nine films in his curricula (mostly crime films) has delivered his best film up to today. His rhythm sense is very acute and follows at least three converging threads: the rescue party, the POW camp and the Filipino resistance movement. All of them add to the general plot without distracting spectator's attention.
The story is based on real facts. ... Read More
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