PGToo Late the Hero

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Play Time: 145 mins
Drama, Action, War
Too Late the Hero

Overview:
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

Status: Released (1970-05-20)
Screen:Robert Aldrich, Robert Sherman, Lukas Heller
Productions: ABC Pictures, The Associates & Aldrich Company, Palomar Pictures International
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Too Late the Hero
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Wuchak

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***WW2 jungle warfare*** In 1942 the Brits have a base at the southern tip of a Jap-held island in the Philippines; a unit is sent on a mission with an American Lieutenant (Cliff Robertson) to take down the radio at the northern end of the isle. Michael Caine plays a troublesome p ....

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CinemaSerf

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Cliff Robertson is "Lawson", an American soldier drafted in to lead a squad of war-weary British soldiers on a jungle mission to destroy a Japanese radio transmitter. It isn't that his men are in any way cowardly, but with Michael Caine's "Tosh" foremost amongst them, they are disill ....

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