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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302756470
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302756472
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 2508
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Description:
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka 'Merrill's Marauders', behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
Amazon.com:
The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrill’s Marauders, touting its depiction of 'World War II’s most fabulous jungle fighters… (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do,' makes director Samuel Fuller’s 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but it’s considerably more than that. The year is 1944; the U.S. Army’s 5307th Composite Unit, a 3000-strong outfit under the command of Brigadier General Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler), has already been fighting the occupying Japanese forces in the wilds of Burma for several months when they’re assigned to march hundreds of miles through jungles, swamps, and mountains to Myitkyina, a town of considerable strategic importance and the gateway to India, where the Allies fear the Japanese and Nazis will meet and consolidate their forces. Mission impossible? So it would seem, as the men are exhausted, disease-ridden, disheartened, and ill-equipped; his second in command, Lt. Stockton (Ty Hardin), argues that they'll never make it, but Merrill (who has a heart condition that could bring him down at any moment) refuses to let up. There are numerous combat sequences, most of them quite convincing (including a very cool scene in a concrete maze), but the film’s strength lies not only in its graphic chronicling of the obvious horrors of war but in its sympathetic (but never condescending) portrayal of the more quotidian aspects of these soldiers' miserable lives, from easy banter to quarrels over food and ammunition, from the interactions with locals to the sheer hell of simply walking another step when you’ve already passed the limits of human endurance. Grim, gritty, intense, and realistic (Fuller was an Army vet himself), this is an effective precursor to the director’s best-known movie, The Big Red One. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good Flick
This is a fine film with your typical "characters" mixed in with very beliveable members of an elite military unit. Based on fact with colorful tweaks it is a rainy day popcorn movie. Too bad you can pick out who will "get it" from the first 15 minutes of the film! But this was typical of the time. I would still say add it to your collection and keep it handy for opening talks with the kids about what happens and what is shown to happen by Hollywood...then have them look it up on Google and learn ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the great movies of World War Two
Easily one of the most inspiring and combat intensive movies of WWII. There are some great scenes of fire and maneuver tactics; especially in the opening battle when the platoon led by Lt. "Stock" (Ty Hardin) hits the Japanese artillery battery before they descend on Walaubum.
Another great battle scene is where the Marauders hit the railway at Shaduzup. The highlight being the nightmarish close quarter battle at the tank traps near the oil storage tanks. It concludes with "Stock" walking ... Read More
Rating: - Some inaccuracies
As a young Air Force corpsman stationed at Clark airbase during the filming of Merrill's Marauders, I had the opportunity to be on the set several times as the "resident" medical person in case of an accident or injury and had a short scene in the film with Andy Dugan that ended up on the cutting room floor. I met all the stars and had a ball. Besides, I got paid $20 per day and they served a great box lunch. One of the blogs I have read says that the extras were members of the Army Special Forces. That ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie. Jeff Chandlers last movie before his death. His back was hurt in fliming movie and died of comp. from surgery.
Great Movie. Lots of young stars, but now they are old or gone. Great movie history. Lots of these guys got their start in this flim. One bad part is that this was Jeff Chandlers last movie. He hurt his back while fliming this movie. And died from comp. from the surgery on his back.Very sad he was a great star.
Rating: - War as it is
Merrill's Marauders comprises the title of this fighting group whose aim was to cut off the potential linkage of Japanese troups with those of the Axis' powers. A true story, this 3,000 strong American army, marched through the hellish jungles of Indian-Burma borderland. Catching various diseases (typhoid, malaria), bitten by leaches, snake bites and other and suffering malnutrition the group reaches their first destination - a jungle strong point. Recouperating from the ordeal they are sure that they soon ... Read More
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302756470
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302756472
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 2508
Studio: Warner Home Video