The war was winding down, although the majority of the world was unaware of it, when Warner Brothers gave film hoers one of the biggest, one of the quietist, and one of the longest action adventures of that period. This is a drama that other than dramatic music and exotic bird sounds features only infrequent lines of dialog once Errol Flynn and his band of merry men five out of a plane into the unknown jungles and grassy knolls of Burma, the cover for Japanese soldiers preparing their own attacks. It's amazing how they put together a script with events surrounding a shell of a story and make it entertaining.
Flynn is surrounded by a cast of mostly unknown contract character players whose faces you may recognize if you've seen a bulk of Warner's output. The most recognizable is George Tobias who seemed to be in every Warner film of the time, but I found myself also recognizing Henry Hull who just happened to pop up in at least three films I've watched in the past few days.
I'd like to think that what I'm seeing is at least partially based upon truth, but after getting settled in after accepting the fact that I'd be tied down with this for 2 1/2 hours, I was pretty engrossed. It's up there with "Action in the North Atlantic", " Air Force", "Destination Tokyo" and "Edge of Darkness" as films which really put Warners on the map for their output of these brilliantly produced propaganda war films that kept the homefront in tuned with what was going on with their husbands and sons overseas.
Flynn is surrounded by a cast of mostly unknown contract character players whose faces you may recognize if you've seen a bulk of Warner's output. The most recognizable is George Tobias who seemed to be in every Warner film of the time, but I found myself also recognizing Henry Hull who just happened to pop up in at least three films I've watched in the past few days.
I'd like to think that what I'm seeing is at least partially based upon truth, but after getting settled in after accepting the fact that I'd be tied down with this for 2 1/2 hours, I was pretty engrossed. It's up there with "Action in the North Atlantic", " Air Force", "Destination Tokyo" and "Edge of Darkness" as films which really put Warners on the map for their output of these brilliantly produced propaganda war films that kept the homefront in tuned with what was going on with their husbands and sons overseas.