Its ok film...there`s another ww2 film ..(colour film)...about Battan too,...how the locals help form resistance pockets........sorry I can not rember its name :$ ....its a B movie ..if I remember.....it shows some horros...like the troops being put in bunkers then burning fuel drums rolled in :( we all forget.....thease were people like you or me :/, poor old john wayne....they reckon he died from the cancer he got from filming in the deserts were they did those nuclear testing :(.....god rest your soul Mr wayne . Times have moved on ...but to us olders we remember...ha was al we saw on tv back in the 80s.....Cowboy films and the like.......into the late 90s........Hardly see the old classics nowa days . This worlds got it self in to one mighty big rush .......thank you old man river ha :$ creek ok going back in my coffin :$