This is the story of the fore-runners of the US Special Forces, a unit of guerrillas headed up by General Merrill, played ruggedly by Jeff Chandler.
They are relentlessly heroic, exemplars of the undaunted warriors who will carry on and push themselves, dragging up reserves of will and energy that Andrew Duggan, the MO, simply cannot believe.
They shoot a lot of the enemy, a lot of them get killed, more get wounded, and only a minority survive.
But it's very boring. It's simply a series of jungle warfare sequences. One can amuse oneself by awarding points for realism and artistic merit for the extras' deaths, but otherwise, unless you are completely addicted to jungle war movies, give this one a miss.
They are relentlessly heroic, exemplars of the undaunted warriors who will carry on and push themselves, dragging up reserves of will and energy that Andrew Duggan, the MO, simply cannot believe.
They shoot a lot of the enemy, a lot of them get killed, more get wounded, and only a minority survive.
But it's very boring. It's simply a series of jungle warfare sequences. One can amuse oneself by awarding points for realism and artistic merit for the extras' deaths, but otherwise, unless you are completely addicted to jungle war movies, give this one a miss.