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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790747750
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790747758
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 142 minutes
Sales Rank: 15002
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1945
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Mission accomplished! Errol Flynn who brought boyish bravado to The Adventures of Robin Hood Dodge City Gentleman Jim and other screen yarns turns in a mature acclaimed performance as the leader of a paratrooper patrol stranded in Burma. It's 'one of the few features of which I am proud' Flynn later said. There's reason for pride. 'This is one of the finest World War II films made during the war' The Movie Guide says. 'One of the best war movies' Guide for the Film Fanatic's Danny Peary wrote 'and among the grimmest.' Raoul Walsh directs the hard-hitting action shot in rugged California locations so similar to Burma that veterans of that campaign refused to believe the crew hadn't somehow sneakedinto Asia.Running Time: 142 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 012569525023 Manufacturer No: 65250
Amazon.com:
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 agonizing 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.
The chief rap against Objective, Burma! (of concern mainly to British observers) is that it suggests that only U.S. forces contested the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. (OK, so it's not the most accurate history lesson.) But that's small beer in view of the movie's bone-chilling portrayal of pain, sacrifice, and endurance. The jungle atmosphere is so persuasive, you'd swear it was shot on the actual locations (though in fact Walsh effectively reworked many of the same situations in Distant Drums, a sort-of Western about the Seminole War, six years later). You'll never forget the terrifying last dark night on a mountainside--or the crocodiles.... 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 aging 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Thoroughly engaging from start to finish!!!!
This is a fantastic movie that I could not turn away from. The DVD quality is great. I am very happy with this purchase.
Rating: - Not Politically Correct, But Loads of Fun
This film has always been one of my favorite WWII flicks and I finally got around to ordering a copy from Amazon, which I just received. I'm definitely glad I did!
The photography is excellent and the DVD video and sound quality, while not top shelf, were better than I expected. The film is 1.33:1 ratio, but by playing it on "full screen" setting the picture completely filled my 16:9 ratio Panasonic's screen and the people and surroundings didn't seem unduly squat or compressed. ... Read More
Rating: - Surprisingly Engaging!!
To be honest, I was not expecting much from this 1945 film.
While I like Errol Flynn, I thought this might be a mismatch of his typical persona with the theme of this film. He's just too slick for a war drama I thought. This is for more of a John Wayne type it seemed.
But Flynn pulls it off with aplomb, and his usual suavity couples nicely with his role as mission leader Captain Nelson. But it is clear near the film of the film even his confident character is having ... Read More
Rating: - Objective Burma
Great movie in the Flynn tradition. Entertaining with plenty of action as well as a true feel for the era. If you like Movies with Errol Flynn as the leading figure you will like this one as well. I must admit that seeing it on this DVD brought me back to memories of the first time veiwed on a old black and white TV many years ago. The movie on this DVD is very well preserved and not washed out or full of artfacts like some movies of this era are.
Rating: - Objective, Burma!
Raoul Walsh's tight, pounding "Burma" is one of the best WWII films out there, and reportedly one of Flynn's personal favorites. It should be, as the swashbuckling star turns in a gritty, first-rate performance as the intrepid Nelson, with worthy support from Hull as the aging correspondent who's clearly in over his head. Long but consistently engrossing, this unsung classic merits a wider audience.
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