MERRILL'S MARAUDERS [DVD]

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• Release Year: 1962
• Genre: War
• Plot: From the director of The Big Red One: the true story of the fighting 5307th!; ; The place: World War II Burma. The mission: drive a fatal wedge between an enemy link-up. The troops: the 5307th Composite Unit, led by Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler) and manned by Stock (Ty Hardin), Chowhound (Will Hutchins), Kolowicz (Claude Akins) and other young dogfaces who after a few weeks of basic training had the fate of the world loaded on their backs. Director Samuel Fuller, whose later The Big Red One is a benchmark work about GIs in World War II's European theater, turned to the war in the Pacific for Merrill's Marauders. Few moviemakers capture life among the grunts as well as Fuller. He brings you up close and personal to the intense, gritty heroics of our World War II combat veterans.
• Cast: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Andrew Duggan, Will Hutchins, Claude Akins, Luz Valdez, John Hoyt, Charlie Briggs, Chuck Roberson, Chuck Hayward, Jack C. Williams, Chuck Hicks, Vaughan Wilson, Pancho Magalona, Samuel Fuller, Milton Sperling, Charlton Ogburn Jr., William H. Clothier, Folmar Blangsted, Howard Jackson
• Director: Samuel Fuller
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie