Bataan (film)

Bataan
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTay Garnett
Written byRobert Hardy Andrews
Garrett Fort(uncredited)
Dudley Nichols(uncredited)
Produced byIrving Starr
StarringRobert Taylor
George Murphy
Thomas Mitchell
Lloyd Nolan
Lee Bowman
Robert Walker
Desi Arnaz
CinematographySidney Wagner
Edited byGeorge White
Music byBronislau Kaper
Eric Zeisl
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer; United States Office of War Information
Release date
  • June 3, 1943 (1943-06-03)
Running time
114 min.
LanguageEnglish
Budget$958,000[1]
Box office$3,117,000[1]

Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Irving Starr (with Dore Schary as executive producer), and directed by Tay Garnett, that stars Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, Lee Bowman, Desi Arnaz and Robert Walker. It follows the fates of a group of men charged with destroying a bridge during the doomed defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.