Objective Burma
by Raoul Walsh
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Actor: Errol Flynn, George Tobias, Henry Hull, James Brown (II), William PrinceDirector: Raoul Walsh
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Objective Burma
Movie Review: Not Politically Correct, But Loads of Fun
Summary: 5 Stars
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 supposed to be 1.33:1 ratio, which I had assumed would leave black bars on both sides of the frame, as if played on a standard width television. To my delight the picture completely filled my 16:9 ratio Panasonic's screen and the people and surroundings didn't seem unduly squat or compressed.
The score for this film is also very good and creates the perfect balance of tension and bravado and blends perfectly with the action on screen. And boy oh boy is there action. Furious and frantic from start to finish, however the pace does slow often enough to flesh out the characters and allow you to care about them. There were several times I paused the film to take stock of the remaining men, to confirm who had died and who fought on. These men were well enough defined to easily have been my father or uncle, or somebody else I knew growing up. They were brave and heroic, yet frightened and confused, typical All-American John Doe's each and everyone.
The one element that might not be to the liking of every film buff is the jingoistic attitude and blatant racial slurs filling the movie. The enemy combatants are constantly referred to as being "Japs" and "Monkeys" and to quote one of the American soldiers after he has witnessed an atrocity committed against one of his own, "We ought to wipe em out. Wipe em off the face of the earth!" Certainly not the attitude an enlightened individual should strive for, but understandable in light of world events unfolding when this movie was made. And let's not forget that racial prejudice and intolerance was rampant on both sides of the ocean back then; fortunately much of the world has learned to curb such appetites in the years following the dark and desperate days of our Father's and Grandfather's youth.
Objective Burma is one of the better films of its genre and perhaps Errol Flynn's finest performance.
Highly Recommended.
Summary of Objective Burma
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
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
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